Patient Money - Getting Medical Help for the Mind as Well as the Body - NYTimes.com.
In this column I will explore how to make the most of your mental health benefits. In a future column, I’ll discuss how to find free or low-cost mental health care if you don’t have insurance. THE CHANGES You might have noticed in the materials your employer handed out recently during open enrollment that your mental health benefits will look different in 2010. For instance, rather than being given a set number of visits, you may have unlimited visits now, but possibly with additional administrative hurdles before you can have access to the care. That’s because of that Mental Health Parity Act mentioned above, which Congress passed last year.
