The effects of state mental health parity legislation on perceived quality of insurance coverage, perceived access to care, and use of mental health specialty care

Health Services Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1361-1378

  Bao, Yuhua ^a   Sturm, Roland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care access; Insurance coverage; Mental health parity legislation; Mental health specialty care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PARITY; RETIREMENT;

EID: 4844222427     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2004.00294.x     Document Type: Article

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