Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan Amendments of 1982

Summary

Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan Amendments of 1982 - Prohibits the Office of Personnel Management from entering into a contract for a Federal employee health benefits plan, unless the plan: (1) is nondiscriminatory; and (2) (excluding comprehensive medical plans) provides equal coverage for each type of benefit offered, provides for the payment of reasonable expenses for the treatment of mental disorders, and establishes a peer review system for determining whether a type of prescribed treatment is necessary medically or as treatment for a mental disorder. Requires the service benefit plan and the indemnity benefit plan to include, in addition to all types of benefits currently authorized: (1) nervous and mental disorder benefits; and (2) alcoholism and substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation benefits. Requires all Federal employee health benefit plans to include benefits for costs for general hospital care and health services of a catastrophic nature.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 5 August 1982

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