Abstract

Acknowledging that a long‐held goal of the behavioral health field has been to achieve equal health insurance coverage and managed care treatment as that which applies to medical and surgical health conditions, the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) has released a draft publication titled “A Behavioral Health Parity Playbook: Strengthening State Laws and Partnerships (https://www.nasmhpd.org/sites/default/files/2023‐01/NASMHPD_Parity%20Playbook_2022.pdf), the NASMHPD Update reported on Feb. 3. The playbook was developed to provide authoritative educational materials about parity and parity enforcement. It condenses and summarizes thousands of pages of material that have been published by federal and state agencies and provides examples of promising practices from states.

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