{"id":30007,"date":"2021-04-15T10:53:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30007"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:53:27","slug":"mental-health-insurance-requirements-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30007","title":{"rendered":"Mental health insurance requirements approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave final approval April 15 to a bill that creates insurance parity for mental health services provided through telehealth in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24399\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24399\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24399\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenArch_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"SenArch_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. John Arch&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. John Arch&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenArch_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24399\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenArch_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. John Arch\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenArch_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenArch_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. John Arch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB487, introduced by La Vista Sen. John Arch, prohibits a private health insurance plan that covers mental health treatment from establishing rates, terms or conditions that place a greater financial burden on an insured for accessing treatment via telehealth.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also requires that the reimbursement rate for telehealth treatment for a mental health condition be the same as the rate for a comparable treatment provided in person.<\/p>\n<p>LB487 passed on a vote of 43-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave final approval April 15 to a bill that creates insurance parity for mental health services provided through telehealth in Nebraska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-30007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking-commerce-and-insurance","tag-sen-john-arch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30009,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30007\/revisions\/30009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}