Will Schwarzenegger and Obama Require Insurers to Pay for Autism Care?
Jamie Court
Huffington Post, July 1, 2009
"Parents of autistic children gathered this morning at Consumer Watchdog's Los Angeles headquarters to announce a lawsuit against Governor Schwarzenegger's administration for allowing health insurers to refuse to pay for Applied BehaviorFULL STORY AT THE HUFFINGTON POSTal[sic] Analysis ("ABA"), an essential treatment for autism, in plain violation of the California Mental Health Parity Act.
Independent panels of doctors paid by California had been ruling in every autistic child's case that the ABA treatment was medically necessary, so insurers changed the rules of the game ... The insurers simply claimed the treatment wasn't covered, because it was educational in nature, and therefore independent panels of medical reviewers no longer had the power (...)
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