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"content": "\u003cp>Amanda Bacon’s eating disorder was growing worse. She had lost 60% of her body weight and was consuming only about 100 calories a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that wasn’t sick enough for her Medicaid managed-care company to cover an inpatient treatment program. She was told in 2017 that unless she weighed 10 pounds less — which would have put her at 5-foot-7 and 90 pounds — or was admitted to a psychiatric unit, she wasn’t eligible for coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember thinking, ‘I’m going to die,’ ” the Las Cruces, N.M., resident recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Bacon, now 35, switched to a plan that paid for treatment, although she says it was still an arduous process getting the services approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many patients, like Bacon, struggle to get insurance coverage for their mental health treatment, even though two federal laws were designed to bring parity between mental and physical health care coverage. Recent studies and a legal case suggest serious disparities remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag='stress' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2008 \u003ca href=\"https://www.cms.gov/cciio/programs-and-initiatives/other-insurance-protections/mhpaea_factsheet.html\">Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act\u003c/a> required large group health plans that provide benefits for mental health problems to put that coverage on an equal footing with physical illness. Two years later, the Affordable Care Act required small-group and individual health plans sold on the insurance marketplaces \u003ca href=\"https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/affordable-care-act-expands-mental-health-and-substance-use-disorder-benefits-and-federal-parity-protections-62-million-americans\">to cover mental health services\u003c/a>, and do so at levels comparable with medical services. (In 2016, parity rules \u003ca href=\"https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/downloads/fact-sheet-cms-2333-f.pdf\">were also applied to Medicaid\u003c/a> managed-care plans, which cover the majority of people in that federal-state health program for low-income residents.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The laws have been partially successful. Insurers are no longer permitted to write policies that charge higher copays or deductibles for mental health care, nor can they set annual or lifetime upper-limits on how much they will pay for such care. But advocates for patients say insurance companies still interpret mental health claims more stringently than those for physical illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Insurance companies can easily circumvent mental health parity mandates by imposing restrictive standards of medical necessity,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.psych-appeal.com/meiram-bendat/\">Meiram Bendat\u003c/a>, a lawyer leading a class-action lawsuit against a mental health subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a closely watched ruling, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/health/unitedhealth-mental-health-parity.html\">federal court in March sided with Bendat\u003c/a> and patients who alleged the insurer was deliberately shortchanging mental health claims. Chief Magistrate Judge \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuzFQV4Z6vClFnpYpTaoS4vBT_RPhQsN/view\">Joseph Spero of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled\u003c/a> that United Behavioral Health wrote its \u003ca href=\"https://www.manatt.com/Insights/Newsletters/Health-Update/Level-of-Care-Criteria-Ruled-Inconsistent\">guidelines for treatment\u003c/a> much more narrowly than common medical standards, covering only enough care to stabilize patients “while ignoring the effective treatment of members’ underlying conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UnitedHealthcare works to “ensure our products meet the needs of our members and comply with state and federal law,” says spokeswoman Tracey Lempner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several studies, though, have found evidence of disparities in insurers’ decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing gap in coverage in hospitals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, researchers at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05226\">Congressional Budget Office\u003c/a> reported that private insurance companies are paying 13% to 14% less for mental health care than Medicare does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurance industry’s own data shows a \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcostinstitute.org/images/easyblog_articles/276/HCCI-2017-Health-Care-Cost-and-Utilization-Report-02.12.19.pdf\">growing gap\u003c/a> between coverage of mental and physical care in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. For the five years ending in 2017, out-of-pocket spending on inpatient mental health care grew nearly 13 times faster than all inpatient care, according to inpatient data reported in February by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcostinstitute.org/about-hcci\">Health Care Cost Institute\u003c/a>, a research group funded by the insurance companies Aetna, Humana, UnitedHealthcare and Kaiser Permanente. (Kaiser Health News is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a \u003ca href=\"http://www.milliman.com/uploadedFiles/insight/2017/NQTLDisparityAnalysis.pdf\">2017 report\u003c/a> by the actuarial firm Milliman found that an office visit with a therapist is five times as likely to be out-of-network, and thus more expensive, than a primary care appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag='health' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this environment, \u003ca href=\"https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/health-care/mental-health-untreated-children-research/\">only half of the nearly 8 million children\u003c/a> who have been diagnosed with depression, anxiety or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder receive treatment, \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2724377\">according to a February research letter\u003c/a> in the medical journal \u003cem>JAMA Pediatrics\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-FFR1-2016/NSDUH-FFR1-2016.htm#tx\">Fewer than 1 in 5 people\u003c/a> with substance use disorder are treated, a national survey suggests, and, overall, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness.shtml\">nearly 6 in 10\u003c/a> people with mental illness get no treatment or medication, according to the National Institute Of Mental Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Bacon, who is still receiving care for her eating disorder, remembers fearing that she wouldn’t get treatment. She was at one point rushed to an emergency room for care, but after several days in the hospital she was sent home, no closer to getting well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, because of her disability, Bacon’s primary medical insurance is through Medicare, which has paid for treatment that her earlier Medicaid provider, Molina Healthcare, refused. She has been treated in four inpatient programs in the past two years — twice through Presbyterian Centennial Care, a Medicaid plan she switched to after Molina, and twice though her current Medicare plan. Bacon is also enrolled in a state-run Medicaid plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molina says it can’t comment on Bacon’s case. “Molina complies with mental health parity laws,” say spokeswoman Danielle Smith, and it “applies industry-recognized medical necessity criteria in any medical determinations affecting mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The ‘wrong criteria’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.austenriggs.org/staff/eric-m-plakun\">Dr. Eric Plakun\u003c/a>, CEO of the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital and residential program in Massachusetts, says that often insurers are “using the wrong criteria” for what makes something medically necessary. They pay enough only to stabilize a patient’s condition, Plakun says, but not enough to improve their underlying illness. He was one of the experts who testified in the case before Judge Spero in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurers say they recognize the importance of mental health care coverage and that they are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ahip.org/mental-health-parity-issue-brief/\">complying with the law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cathryn Donaldson, a spokeswoman for the trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans, says the industry supports parity, but that it is also harder to prove when a mental health treatment is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with the data on medical and surgical care, she says, the data and standards to measure mental health care “trail far behind.” She cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.mnhospitals.org/Portals/0/Documents/policy-advocacy/mental-health/MHA%20Mental%20Health%20Avoidable%20Days%20Study%20Report%20July%202016.pdf\">a 2016 study\u003c/a> of Minnesota hospitals, where nearly one-fifth of the time patients spent in psychiatric units occurred after they were stabilized and ready to be discharged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just like doctors use scientific evidence to determine the safest, most effective treatments,” insurers do the same to cover treatment “consistent with guidelines showing when and where it’s effective for patients,” Donaldson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health plans commonly apply several controls that limit their coverage of mental health care. And these strategies by insurers are legal — unless they are applied more strictly for mental health care than medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, they often require patients to try cheaper options first, a strategy called “fail first.” Patients referred by their doctors to a residential program for opioid addiction, for example, might be denied coverage by their insurers until they try — and fail — to improve at a less expensive part-time out-patient program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiring doctors, nurses and pharmacists to review claims is another technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Frederick Villars, who reviews mental health claims for Aetna, remembers arguing with insurers to approve treatment when he was a practicing psychiatrist. His team decides what Aetna will cover based on clinical standards, he says. And providers upset about a coverage decision “are well aware of what these guidelines are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a pleasant process,” Villars says, “but it’s the only tool that exists in this setting to try to keep costs under control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/\">\u003cem>Kaiser Health News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a nonprofit, editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation. It is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. \u003c/em>\u003cem>Graison Dangor is a journalist living in Brooklyn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 Kaiser Health News. 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At the meeting Tuesday night, he presented an education resource guide and a plan for how his organization and others would reach out to Oakland residents over the next two years to provide support and information. For example, he said, they would advise anyone with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder to consult with a doctor before taking entheogenic plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plazola, however, also argued that the criminalization of these plants has contributed to mass incarceration based on “irrational fears.” At the same time, he said, the mental health crisis has also hit those communities who do not have access to these resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13858117\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question that people should be asking themselves is, ‘What did the world look like before [these plants] were criminalized?'” he said. 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We all see it … when we walk on the street and see people in misery,” Ronen said. “Every single day we see people being released onto the street with their hospital bands on who are still clearly in crisis and don’t know what to do and where to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program would also expand residential treatment and housing services already operating in San Francisco for people with severe mental illness and substance abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen and Haney plan to put a separate measure on the fall ballot, dubbed the Excessive CEO Salary Tax, that would place an extra surcharge on businesses that have chief executives who make at least 100 times more than the firms’ typical workers. They believe the tax would generate about $80 million a year, adding to the city’s $370 million annual budget for mental health and substance abuse treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental Health SF would rely on some state money as well. The state Medi-Cal program covers half the cost of services to low-income Californians enrolled in the program. Ronen said San Francisco should draw down more funding from Proposition 63, a tax approved by voters in 2004 to fund services for Californians with serious mental illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program would also use some funding from an IPO tax recently proposed by Supervisor Gordon Mar to raise the employer payroll tax on stock-based compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for a leading business lobbying group raised concerns about the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s little question that we need to do a far better job of providing mental health care services. 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The mayor recently hired the city’s first ever director of mental health reform, Dr. Anton Nigusse Bland, who previously directed psychiatric emergency services at San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is now tasked with evaluating the city’s mental health and substance abuse treatment services, particularly for homeless people, and making recommendations for changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is also participating in a pilot project overhauling the delivery of drug treatment services through Medi-Cal – a project that includes some features proposed in the Mental Health SF program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ronen says it’s not nearly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen a single plan that comes out of the mayor’s office to deal with this crisis at the scale that we’re dealing with,” Ronen said. “We need a massive overhaul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To staff the program, Ronen believes the city can accomplish what the private health care industry can’t. 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The agency asked Claire’s to recall the makeup, but it did not. Only after the FDA released a public statement did the retailer pull the product from its shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At Claire’s, customer safety is paramount, and we pride ourselves on providing our customers with the highest quality and safest products,” the retailer said in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/claires/status/1103303881776422912/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1103303881776422912&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Farticles%2Fblog%2Ftoxics-in-cosmetics-california-legislature-rejects-makeup-ban%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a>. “Out of an abundance of caution, we have removed the three products identified by the FDA from our stores, and are also removing any remaining talc based cosmetic products.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/claires/status/1103303881776422912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1103303881776422912&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Farticles%2Fblog%2Ftoxics-in-cosmetics-california-legislature-rejects-makeup-ban%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, the FDA \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/statement-fda-commissioner-scott-gottlieb-md-and-susan-mayne-phd-director-center-food-safety-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a>: “To be clear, there are currently no legal requirements for any cosmetic manufacturer marketing products to American consumers to test their products for safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s ultimately still the honor system,” said Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group, a sponsor of the Muratsuchi’s bill in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no amount of contact with asbestos — a combination of six naturally occurring minerals — that is considered safe, according to multiple government agencies, including the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp61.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control\u003c/a>. Asbestos also appears on California’s Proposition 65 \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/chemicals/asbestos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list\u003c/a> and is known to cause cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asbestos can sometimes be found in talc, a mineral frequently used in certain personal care products like baby powder and eye shadow. A Reuters \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> concluded that Johnson and Johnson knew its baby powder was sometimes contaminated with asbestos and the company knowingly kept that information from the public and regulators. The company faced thousands of lawsuits from those who claimed the asbestos-tainted products caused cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='science_1941369,news_11732921,science_1937767' label='chemical regulation']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others argue that there is enough cosmetic regulation and the bill would make it difficult for manufacturers and retailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill proposes an outright \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-hotel-shampoo-bottles-plastic-toiletries/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ban\u003c/a> on many ingredients extensively reviewed by independent experts worldwide and found safe for use in cosmetics,” said Jay Ansell of the Personal Care Products Council at the bill’s committee hearing. (The Council also opposes a bill that plans to ban tiny hotel toiletries.) “The ban would adversely affect tens of thousands of products and potentially compromise the ability to provide consumers with the safe high-quality products they expect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a decade ago, the state launched the California Safe Cosmetics Program, which features an updated, searchable \u003ca href=\"https://safecosmetics.cdph.ca.gov/search/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">database\u003c/a> of products containing potentially harmful chemicals and minerals. Last year then-Gov. Jerry Brown line-item vetoed money to update the program and boost staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It currently features more than two dozen common cosmetics containing lead, for instance, and nearly a dozen containing arsenic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While companies are required to report harmful chemicals, there is no enforcement of company disclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead, another element the bill sought to ban, is more difficult to navigate. The substance is commonly found in small amounts in water and soil, according to the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/lead/learn-about-lead\">Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a>. Opponents argued that companies wouldn’t intentionally add lead to products, but since it’s so commonplace, trace amount of the element can still be found in makeup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where do Californians go from here? Muratsuchi said he plans to try again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://CALmatters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Vivian Song of Sacramento tries to keep up with the latest makeup trends. While she pays attention to the ingredients in her beauty routine, she says others are clueless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not a lot of girls know what they’re putting on their face,” she said. “Whatever’s trending, they’re going to put it on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Legislature considered banning the sale of of cosmetics containing any of at least 15 toxic chemicals and minerals — including formaldehyde, asbestos and mercury. But after major pushback from powerful players such as the California Chamber of Commerce, which put the bill on its annual list of “\u003ca href=\"https://advocacy.calchamber.com/policy/bill-tracking/job-killers/2019-job-killer-list/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">job killers\u003c/a>,” \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 495\u003c/a> failed to survive its first committee hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11748557\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/toxic-cosmetics-photo-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11748557 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/toxic-cosmetics-photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1070\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/toxic-cosmetics-photo-1.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/toxic-cosmetics-photo-1-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/toxic-cosmetics-photo-1-800x669.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/toxic-cosmetics-photo-1-1020x853.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/toxic-cosmetics-photo-1-1200x1003.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vivian Song, 19, says she wears organic makeup to alleviate breakouts. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Castillo/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The goal of this bill is to bring California up to par with the majority of European and other nations that have already banned these cosmetics with highly toxic chemicals,” said Democratic Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi of Torrance, the bill’s author. “We certainly don’t want to kill jobs, but we want to make sure that these products are not being sold when there’s strong scientific evidence indicating there are harmful impacts on women, men and children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Chamber said it would have imposed “onerous and unnecessary economic burdens on California manufacturers and retailers by immediately banning thousands of personal care products from being sold in California….The mere presence of a chemical in a product cannot be a proxy for ‘exposure.’ Actual exposure at a level sufficient to cause harm, as determined via rigorous analysis, should be the standard for more regulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates said the bill would allow California to step in where the federal government had failed to protect consumers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It is designed as a guide for teachers to meet state standards on health education, such as nutrition, physical activity and combating alcohol and drug abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s the parts about sex that got the most attention during a public hearing Wednesday in Sacramento. The framework tells teachers that students in kindergarten can identify as transgender and offers tips for how to talk about that, adding “the goal is not to cause confusion about the gender of the child but to develop an awareness that other expressions exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It gives tips for discussing masturbation with middle-schoolers, including telling them it is not physically harmful, and for discussing puberty with transgender teens that creates “an environment that is inclusive and challenges binary concepts about gender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the parent of three kids, we’re on a careful trajectory here not to be introducing things as though they are endorsed in some way,” board president Linda Darling-Hammond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Phoenix Ali Rajah, 16, a transgender boy']‘I’m never taught about how to be in a relationship with gay men. … (the) conversation with sex starts from a different place.’[/pullquote]But Patricia Reyes, a 45-year-old mother of six, doesn’t believe that. She traveled more than 400 miles from her home in Southern California to attend Wednesday’s hearing, bringing along her 4-year-old daughter, Angeline, who held a sign that said: “Protect my innocence and childhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just scary what they are going to be teaching. It’s pornography,” Reyes said. “If this continues, I’m not sending them to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the pushback focused not on the framework, but on the books it recommends students read. 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