ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Impact of Mental Health Parity & Addiction Equity Act on Costs & Utilization in Alabama’s Children’s Health Insurance Program Running title/header: Impact of Mental Health Parity in Alabama CHIP Bisakha Sen, PhD a (Corresponding Author) bsen@uab.edu Justin Blackburn, PhD c jblackb@iu.edu Michael A. Morrisey, PhD b Morrisey@tamu.edu Meredith Kilgore, PhD a mkilgore@uab.edu Nir Menachemi, PhD c nirmena@iu.edu Cathy Caldwell, MPH d cathy.caldwell@adph.state.al.us David Becker, PhD a dbecker@uab.edu a University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health Department of Health Care Organization & Policy Ryals Public Health Building, 320 1665 University Blvd Birmingham, AL, USA 35294 b Texas A&M University School of Public Health Department of Health Policy & Management 212 Adriance Lab Rd 1266 TAMU College Station, TX, USA 77843 c Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health Department of Health Policy & Management Health Sciences Building, RG 5132 1050 Wishard Blvd Indianapolis, IN, USA 46202 ___________________________________________________________________ This is the author's manuscript of the article published in final edited form as: Sen, B., Blackburn, J., Morrisey, M. A., Kilgore, M., Menachemi, N., Caldwell, C., & Becker, D. (2018). Impact of Mental Health Parity & Addiction Equity Act on Costs & Utilization in Alabama’s Children’s Health Insurance Program. Academic Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2018.07.014