Compensation of qualified treatment trainees under health insurance policies and plans

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

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.

Who's behind it

11 representatives are its authors⁠. 9 are Democrats and 2 are Republicans.

1 more lawmaker signed on in support⁠.