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This bill aims to strengthen mental health parity enforcement by requiring the Connecticut Insurance Department to take two specific actions regarding health carriers' compliance with mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits. First, the department must establish penalties for health carriers that do not comply with restrictions on nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTLs), which are non-numeric limitations on mental health coverage that can be more subtle than direct numerical caps. Second, the department must publicly publish on its website the names of health carriers found to be non-compliant with these NQTL restrictions. By mandating both financial penalties and public disclosure, the bill seeks to incentivize health insurance providers to ensure equal coverage and access for mental health and substance use disorder treatments, consistent with existing mental health parity laws that require insurance plans to provide comparable coverage for mental and physical health conditions.

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