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Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy and Action (EDC)
611 Pennsylvania Ave SE #423, Washington, DC 20003-4303
Office: 202-543-9570
Website: www.eatingdisorderscoalition.org
Email: mlerro@eatingdisorderscoalition.org
Treatment Model: The EDC is a collaborative of 27 national and local organizations involved in eating disorder treatment, research, and prevention.
The EDC works with all forms of eating disorders; males and females, children, adolescents, and adults. They also work with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Binge Eating Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).
Treating Eating Disorders Since the Year: 2000
The Mission of the Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy and Action - To advance the federal recognition of eating disorders as a public health priority.
Voices - Not Bodies Campaign - National Association of Anorexia and Bulimia
PO Box 7, Highland Park, IL 60035
Office: 847-831-3438
Website: www.anad.org
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Mental Health Parity Act of 1996: The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996, which became effective on January 1, 1997 and will sunset on September 30, 2001, requires employers that offer mental health benefits to set annual and lifetime caps equal to those for medical and surgical benefits. The measure excludes businesses with 50 or fewer employees, and allows all employers to be exempted from the law if their costs rise more than one percent as a result of complying with the requirements. The law allows health insurance plans to set different benefit levels for co-payments, deductibles, out-of-pocket payments, impatient hospital days, and outpatient visits.
Relationship to State Law: A state law requiring more comprehensive coverage is not weakened by the federal parity law, nor does the federal law preclude a state from enacting stronger parity legislation.
Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 1999: On April 14, 1999, U.S. Senators Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Paul Wellstone (D-MN) introduced the Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 1999 which would require full health insurance parity for the most severe, biologically based mental illnesses. The legislation would prohibit unequal restrictions on annual and lifetime mental health benefits, impatient hospital days, outpatient visits, and out-of-pocket expenses.
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP): On June 7, 1999, during the White House Conference on Mental Health, the Clinton Administration announced that it will require health insurance plans for federal employees to provide equal coverage for mental illnesses, mandating coverage for more than 9.5 million federal workers and their family members.
Information sited from National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (1999). For more information on current Mental Health Legislation and what you can do contact NAMI at www.nami.org.
Media Campaigns: Treatment and Prevention
Members: If you are willing to be interviewed for radio, television, and articles please email your name and telephone number. Don't forget to be alert and aware of media campaigns that send destructive messages: Look for unhealthy advertising campaigns, let's unite and get those ad's removed.
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