AB 1129

This bill prohibits any health insurance plan from excluding coverage for

mental health or behavioral health treatment or services provided by a qualified

treatment trainee within the scope of the qualified treatment trainee's education and

training if the health insurance policy covers the mental health or behavioral health

treatment or services when provided by another health care provider. Further, the

bill prohibits health insurance plans from covering mental health or behavioral

health treatment or services provided by a qualified treatment trainee at a rate that

is lower than the rate paid to another qualified treatment trainee for the same

treatment or service under the Medical Assistance program. The Medical Assistance

program is a joint federal and state program that provides health services to

individuals who have limited financial resources. Qualified treatment trainee is

defined under the bill to mean a person with a graduate degree from an accredited

institution and course work in professional counseling, marriage and family therapy,

or social work or course work that leads to, or is substantially equivalent to course

work that leads to, licensure in his or her field of practice and who has not yet

completed the applicable supervised practice requirements for licensure in his or her

field of practice but has completed at least 1,000 hours of clinical training associated

with his or her field of practice.

This proposal may contain a health insurance mandate requiring a social and

financial impact report under s. 601.423, stats.