A tale of two states: do consumers see mental health insurance parity when shopping on state exchanges?

Kelsey N Berry1, Haiden A Huskamp1, Howard H Goldman1

  • 1Ms. Berry is in the doctoral program in Health Policy and Ethics, Harvard University, Boston (e-mail: kelseyberry@fas.harvard.edu). Dr. Huskamp is with the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr. Goldman, who is editor of Psychiatric Services, is with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. Dr. Barry is with the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore. Steven S. Sharfstein, M.D., Dr. Huskamp, and Alison Evans Cuellar, Ph.D., are editors of this column.

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