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Mental Health Employee Benefits

Epstein Becker & Green

What Health Care Lawyers and Professionals Need to Know About Emerging Employee Benefit Issues

“ERISA, you’ll need a lawyer for that.” Our practice group’s tagline is meant to be a shorthand for the alphabet soup of laws that apply to employee benefits, including the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)....more

Epstein Becker & Green

Hot Topics in Employee Benefits: A Primer for In-House Lawyers

“ERISA, you’ll need a lawyer for that.” Our practice group’s tagline is meant to be a shorthand for the alphabet soup of laws that apply to employee benefits, including the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)....more

Stoel Rives - Health Law Insider®

In Case You Missed It: Federal Agencies Pause Enforcement of the 2024 MHPAEA Final Rule; Prior Regulations and Comparative...

On May 15, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (“the Departments”) released a statement announcing a temporary non-enforcement period regarding their final rule issued on September 9,...more

FordHarrison

What Employers Need to Know About New York's Expansion of Workers' Compensation Benefits for Mental Health Injuries

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New York significantly expanded workers’ compensation benefits to include coverage of certain mental health-related injuries. As of January 1, 2025, the New York Workers’ Compensation Law provides that “all workers” who...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - May 2025

The May Monthly Minute brings you up-to-date on mental health parity enforcement relief, as well as smoker surcharge and prohibited transaction litigation. Nonenforcement of 2024 Mental Health Parity Regulations - Earlier...more

Littler

The Parity Paradox: MHPAEA Compliance for Employers and Insurers During the 2024 Enforcement Pause

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The U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury have announced that they will pause enforcement of the 2024 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Final Rule (the “2024 Final Rule”) for...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Administration Grants Welcome Reprieve From Certain NQTL Requirements

Administration Grants Welcome Reprieve From Certain NQTL Requirements - Earlier this month, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury (the “Departments”) announced that for the foreseeable future...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Delayed Enforcement of Mental Health Parity NQTL Comparative Analysis Final Regulations

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Under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), as amended by the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), 2021, group health plans and health insurance issuers must conduct comparative analyses to show that...more

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The U.S. Mental Health Crisis – Mental Health: Beyond the ADA and FMLA

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Real World Impact: This article is a continuation of a series of Alerts providing guidance for employers on mental health in the workplace and specifically addresses how employers can not only meet the requirements of the...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Departments Will Not Enforce 2024 Final Rule under MHPAEA

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The Trump Administration has just announced that it will pause enforcement of the September 2024 final rule (“Final Rule”) under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”)....more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

Mental Health Parity Non-Enforcement Statement Released

The US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (the Departments) announced their non-enforcement policy on May 15, 2025, indicating they will not enforce any new requirements imposed by the...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

US District Court Grants Freeze on Mental Health Parity Enforcement

The US Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (together, the Departments) filed a motion to suspend the litigation proceedings in The ERISA Industry Committee vs. HHS et al. on May 9, 2025 while the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Mental Health Brake: 2024 MHPAEA Regulations Put on Hold

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A recent court filing offers a reprieve to health plan sponsors in their efforts to comply with final regulations issued last year under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)....more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

A Bit of Mental Health Parity Relief for Employers Sponsoring Group Health Plans

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The Department of Labor (DOL), together with the Departments of Treasury and Health and Human Services) have decided to suspend enforcement of certain provisions of the nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTL) final...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Federal Regulators Announce Non-Enforcement of the 2024 Rule for Mental Health Parity

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On May 9, 2025, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (collectively, “the Departments”) asked the D.C. federal court to suspend litigation while they consider whether to rescind or modify the 2024...more

ArentFox Schiff

Mental Health Parity: In a Pair of Decisions, California Federal Court Rejects United’s Efforts to Kick Behavioral Health Class...

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Within the last month, the US District Court for the Northern District of California rejected efforts by United Behavioral Health (UBH) to dismiss and decertify two class actions seeking relief related to UBH’s processing of...more

Fisher Phillips

An Employer’s 5-Step Guide to Supporting Employees During Mental Health Awareness Month and Year-Round

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which creates an opportunity to reflect on the well-being of your workforce. Recent statistics reveal that employees across all industries are experiencing an uptick in stress, burnout,...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - April 2025

The April Monthly Minute showers readers with some eye-opening case law updates, ranging from a $38.8M jury verdict in a 401(k) fee case, to a pair of cases involving Elevance (f/k/a Anthem) health plan coverage exclusions....more

ArentFox Schiff

Anthem Set to Settle Five-Year Long Mental Health Coverage Class Action

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Anthem Inc. has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought by participants in employee health plans administered by the insurer....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Challenges in Enforcing Mental Health Parity: EBSA’s Struggle to Ensure Compliance

A recent audit conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) has uncovered significant challenges encountered by the Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) in ensuring compliance...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Building Workplace Culture During Return to Office

Since 2022, over 50% of companies have established some kind of return to office policy. But what are they doing about the culture employees are returning to?...more

FordHarrison

EntertainHR: What SNL Can Teach Us About Employee Retention

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Last month, comedians spanning five decades gathered to celebrate one of TV’s longest running shows, Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary. Fifty years is quite a remarkable accomplishment, considering shows rarely last...more

Snell & Wilmer

Mental Health Parity Compliance: What Steps Should an Employer Take Next?

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The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”) and its implementing rules require group health plans to ensure that financial requirements (e.g., co-pays, deductibles, and coinsurance), quantitative treatment...more

Littler

New Health and Safety Action Required for Brazil Employers – Psychosocial Risks

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New Regulatory Requirements - Companies with employees in Brazil have until May 26, 2025, to revise their Brazil Risk Management Program (PGR) to include psychosocial risks....more

Husch Blackwell LLP

What Constitutes Parity? The ERISA Industry Committee’s Lawsuit Challenging the 2024 Final Rule

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On January 17, 2025, the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, claiming that the 2024 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Final Rule...more

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