Our Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group summarizes the key provisions of a proposed rule that would impose new Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act requirements on group health plans and health insurance issuers.

- The proposed rule focuses on three new requirements for nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTLs)

- The government intends to take a holistic approach to enforcement to ensure parity

- If the rule is finalized, every NQTL comparative analysis will need to be updated and expanded