Clinton Mental Health Plan Stresses Payment Innovation, Parity Enforcement

Many mental health patient advocates are thrilled Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton laid out a comprehensive mental health reform plan that intends to have the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation create and implement new pay models in both programs and promote health information technology to better coordinate physical and mental health care. Clinton’s plan, released Monday (Aug. 29), includes enforcing mental health parity through disclosure requirements; using random audits to find parity violations; strengthening federal oversight of health insurer...