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MENTAL HEALTH

Insurance Coverage – Psychiatric Services

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Medical Society supports the provision of benefits for emotional and mental illness under all governmental and private insurance programs that are equivalent in scope and duration to those benefits provided for other medical or physical illnesses.

(Resolutions 10, 16, 19, 23-1983, adopted 5/7/83)
(reaffirmed, Report FF-1993, Item 10, adopted 11/7/93, and by Substitute Resolution 8-1999, adopted as amended 11/14/99)
(revised, Report C-2005, Item 50, adopted 10/16/2005)
(revised, Report J-2010, Item 3-5, adopted 10/24/2010) (reaffirmed, NCMS Policy Review 2015 Report, Item 58, adopted 10/24/2015)