Private Insurance
Some private insurance plans provide limited coverage for speech and occupational therapy. Check with your service provider for the best way to to file claims for these services to ensure that your child receives their maximum insurance benefit.
Some policies will also offer coverage for services such as psychology, psychiatry, testing, medication, and nutrition. Check with your service providers for the best way to file claims for these services to ensure that your child receives their maximum insurance benefit.
Most, if not all private insurance plans in Oklahoma currently do not cover other autism treatments, such as Applied Behavioral Analysis, DIR/Floortime, or Relationship Development Intervention. Although the latest autism management and care standards from the American Academy of Pediatrics advise parents to provide autism treatment services for children with autism, the insurance industry has not offered an explanation for the exclusion of these treatments from current policies.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma indicated in 2008 that they will add an autism treatment benefit to group policies in 2010, but to date has not issued any further clarification. To see a related news article, click here.
Both national and state efforts are underway to create equity in autism treatment insurance. For more information on the federal efforts to change the laws affecting federal employees and self-funded insurance plans, click here.
For more information on the effort to provide autism treatment equity for private group and individual policies in Oklahoma, click here.
Some policies will also offer coverage for services such as psychology, psychiatry, testing, medication, and nutrition. Check with your service providers for the best way to file claims for these services to ensure that your child receives their maximum insurance benefit.
Most, if not all private insurance plans in Oklahoma currently do not cover other autism treatments, such as Applied Behavioral Analysis, DIR/Floortime, or Relationship Development Intervention. Although the latest autism management and care standards from the American Academy of Pediatrics advise parents to provide autism treatment services for children with autism, the insurance industry has not offered an explanation for the exclusion of these treatments from current policies.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma indicated in 2008 that they will add an autism treatment benefit to group policies in 2010, but to date has not issued any further clarification. To see a related news article, click here.
Both national and state efforts are underway to create equity in autism treatment insurance. For more information on the federal efforts to change the laws affecting federal employees and self-funded insurance plans, click here.
For more information on the effort to provide autism treatment equity for private group and individual policies in Oklahoma, click here.
