For Speech-Impaired, Insurance Fights Remedy. So goes the title of a New York Times story about people trying to get around some antiquated rules on speech devices. If you are like me, when it comes to speech (or augmentative and alternative communication) devices, the image that comes to mind is often a big, dedicated device [...]
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Insurance bureaucracies slow to catch up on new AAC devices
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Genetic tests and insurance
Thursday, September 10th, 2009Does your insurance cover genetic testing? Many do. But often only in the case of high risk pregnancies or amniocentesis. If you want a diagnosis for your self or your already born child, it’s on your dime. In other words, if you would like to consider terminating your pregnancy and not bringing a heavy user [...]
I stand corrected
Thursday, July 16th, 2009I have stated in recent posts that I don’t think it is appropriate for the government to declare any specific therapy as “medically necessary” by law. So much so that I wondered if there was examples of it happening. Well it does. Consider House Resolution, H.R. 2413, the Autism Treatment Acceleration Act of 2009. Not [...]
End insurance discrimination?
Monday, July 13th, 2009There is one very important thing that is missing in the call to action on insurance reform put out by Autism Speaks. It is posed as a call to end insurance discrimination. To end insurance discrimination for autism. Why only autism? If there is insurance discrimination (there is), it is not limited to autism. We [...]
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