NH SB646

Requires health insurers, nonprofit health service corporations, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for biologically-based mental illnesses that is consistent with New Hampshire Medicaid scope of coverage and reimbursement rates

Changes the reimbursement benchmark for mental health and substance use disorder treatment providers from Medicare to Medicaid rates, requiring that provider reimbursements be at least equal to relative Medicaid reimbursements for the same services

Covered mental illnesses include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, anorexia/bulimia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, autism/pervasive developmental disorder, and chronic PTSD

Fiscal impact on state revenue and expenditures is indeterminable; if the change requires coverage exceeding current requirements, the state would need to defray costs for qualified health plans in individual and small group markets

Takes effect upon passage