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House adopts mental‑health parity changes after floor debate over cost and coverage
Summary
The Utah House on March 2000 concurred with Senate changes to third substitute House Bill 35, a mental‑health parity measure that creates different coverage options by employer size and sets implementation timing for HMOs and other policies. Members pressed sponsors on actuarial and fiscal impacts before passage.
Representative Jay Buckmeyer, the sponsor, told the House that third substitute House Bill 35 reorganizes mental‑health coverage by dividing the insurance market into three groups — individuals, small employers (2–50 employees) and large employers (51 or more) — and preserves existing mental‑health coverage while requiring insurers to offer specified catastrophic coverage options. "The bill divides the insurance market into 3 groups, individuals, small employers, and large employers," Buckmeyer said, adding the measure results from "over 8 hours of meeting with business, insurance, actuarials" and that stakeholders including Intermountain…
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