Abrams Fensterman’s Carolyn Reinach Wolf, Executive Partner and founder of our Mental Health Law practice, was quoted in Bloomberg Law, providing insight into the Biden administration’s new mental health parity rule and the potential legal challenges it faces. Wolf shared her perspective as a leading attorney representing both patients and providers in mental health law.
Here is the full excerpt where Wolf was quoted:
Justifying the need to strengthen enforcement is the administration’s best defense against legal challenges, said Carolyn Reinach Wolf, executive partner at Abrams Fensterman, LLP, who represents both patients and providers as director of the firm’s mental health practice.
“If you’re going to cover medical/surgical illnesses, what’s the difference?” she said. “I mean, that’s the perspective we always take—that mental illness or substance use disorder is an illness.”
If nothing else, it simply looks bad for the private industry to fight the rule in the first place, Wolf said.
“I say to clients every day, often there’s the legal answer and the common sense answer or the best interest answer,” she said, adding, “yes, maybe you can find some legal challenge, but in the long run is that really what you want to do?”
