Bill > S555

This bill aims to require mental health parity in disability insurance policies. Specifically, it prohibits individual and group short-term or long-term disability insurance policies from imposing benefit limitations or exclusions on claimants affected by behavioral health disorders, unless the same limitations or exclusions are also applied equally to claimants affected by physical disorders. The bill does not prohibit periodic medical exams or other procedures to determine whether a disability exists or continues to exist, as long as those procedures are comparable and no more frequent or onerous than those required for physical disabilities.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S555