Audits appear to be rising under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, which requires health plans to provide comparable benefits for mental illness and addiction to those provided for medical and surgical treatment.
An October report from a Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorder Parity Task Force said that the U.S. Department of Labor, one of the agencies that enforces the mental health parity law, had reviewed 1,515 health plans for compliance between 2010 and 2015, finding 171 violations. President Barack Obama created the task force in March to help establish equity in benefits and treatment.
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