Mental Health Parity Enforcement
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-16 — To amend the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish additional requirements relating to claims and appeals.: cross-connection with erisa-claims-appeals-requirements: ERISA claims-and-appeals procedural standards intersect with parity enforcement, which relies on claim/appeal processes to surface non-quantitative treatment limitation violations. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-07-16 — To direct the Secretary of Labor to require group health plans include certain information on claim denials in annual reports, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with group-health-plan-claim-denial-reporting: Claim-denial reporting data would provide an empirical basis for detecting parity violations, since denial patterns are a primary enforcement signal under MHPAEA. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-07-16 — A bill to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage that provide benefits for sex-rejecting procedures to provide benefits for items and services to address the harms caused by sex-rejecting procedures and to restore healthy human form and functioning, to the greatest extent possible.: cross-connection with erisa-group-health-plan-restorative-care-mandate: Both impose ERISA/PHSA-based coverage parity requirements on group health plans, though this bill targets a specific procedure category rather than mental-health/substance-use benefit parity. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-06-30 — Mental Health Parity Enforcement and Funding Act: 2025 — Mental Health Parity Enforcement and Funding Act (HR9551, 119th Congress) referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce; provisions and enforcement mechanisms not yet detailed in the referral. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-02-04 — Parity Enforcement Act of 2025: HR957 (Parity Enforcement Act of 2025) introduced in the 119th Congress and referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce on 2025-02-04; bill aims to strengthen enforcement of existing mental health parity requirements in employer-sponsored (ERISA) plans. (novelty: 2)