With Coalition, ASAM Requests $40 Million for DOL's EBSA in Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill

Twenty four organizations signed a letter requesting $40 million for the Employee Security Benefits Administration (EBSA) within the Department of Labor (DOL) in the FY 2025 Labor-Health and Human Services (HHS) appropriations bill to review health plans' parity compliance analyses. In the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA), Congress amended the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) to require health plans to conduct parity compliance analyses on all non-quantitative treatment limitations (NQTLs) imposed on substance use disorder or mental health care benefits. 

Read the letter here.