Comment on FR Doc # E9-09629

Please see the attached letter dated May 19, 2009, from David R. Riemer, Director of Policy and Planning for Community Advocates Public Policy Institute, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, to Adam Shaw, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, in which Mr. Riemer requests that the proposed federal rules state that Medicaid managed care organizations are subject to compliance with the addiction and mental health parity provisions of Subpart 2 of Part A of Section 2705 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended by the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (Division C, Title V, Subtitle B, Sections 511-512 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, H.R. 1424, P.L. 110-343), cited as 42 U.S.C.S. Section 300gg-5.