More care for 4 common disorders

A two-tiered system allowed health insurers to limit treatment for dozens of mental health diagnoses to 24 outpatient sessions and 60 days of hospitalization per year. But it prohibited such limits on nine specific disorders: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, affective disorders, delirium and dementia, and paranoia and other psychotic disorders.

Four additional psychiatric conditions are added to the nine without limitations on treatment: autism, eating disorders, substance abuse problems, and post-traumatic-stress disorders. The law also gives the state mental health commissioner the authority to include any additional disorder to this list.