1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Behavioral Health Coverage Transparency Act of 2018 . 2. Strengthening parity in mental health and substance use disorder benefits (a) Public Health Service Act Section 2726(a) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300gg–26(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (8) Disclosure and enforcement requirements (A) Disclosure requirements (i) Regulations Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this paragraph, the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury, shall issue regulations for carrying out this section, including an explanation of documents that group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall disclose in accordance with clause (ii), the process governing the disclosure of such documents, and analyses that such plans and issuers shall conduct in order to demonstrate compliance with this section. (ii) Disclosure requirements The documents required to be disclosed by a group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance under clause (i) shall include an annual report that details the specific analyses performed to ensure compliance of such plan or issuer with this section, including any regulation promulgated pursuant to this section. At a minimum, with respect to the application of nonquantitative treatment limitations (in this paragraph referred to as NQTLs ) to benefits under the plan or coverage, such report shall— (I) identify the specific factors the plan or issuer used in performing its NQTLs analysis; (II) identify and define the specific evidentiary standards relied on to evaluate such factors; (III) describe how the evidentiary standards are applied to each service category for mental health benefits, substance use disorder benefits, medical benefits, and surgical benefits; (IV) disclose the results of the analyses of the specific evidentiary standards in each service category