Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Wisconsin Lawmakers Consider Boosting Addiction Coverage Story at Join Together - "The Wisconsin Assembly is weighing a measure that would double the minimum group-insurance coverage requirements for addiction and mental-health care, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported March 28. The bill, AB-252, sponsored by state Sen. Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay), would raise minimum coverage requirements from $7,000 to $18,300. The coverage level was last adjusted in 1985. Hansen said the change is long overdue, noting that $7,000 barely covers a week's stay in a hospital-based treatment program."