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Center for Public Advocacy
Your parity rights
Downloadable tools to help you understand and fight for your parity rights.
This toolkit is designed to be an aid for individuals seeking recovery from addiction, as well as their families, providers and advocates, to help them understand the new rights and benefits under the parity law.
We trust the toolkit can be a key resource to help you communicate with health plans and insurance companies, prepare and document information should disputes arise over coverage or reimbursement and understand your basic appeals rights and procedures.
Coverage for Addiction and Mental Illness: Now It Is the Law
Pamphlet will help you ask the right questions when working with your insurance company. It also provides a glossary of terms which may be helpful if insurance company language is becoming overwhelming.
Patient template for reasonable denial
Form letter which may be filled in and used to request the reason for a denial of coverage from your insurance company.
Provider request for reasonable denial
Form letter which may be filled out by your doctor/provider to request the reason for a denial of coverage from your insurance company.
