The center offers families a one-stop location for both diagnosing and treating children with autism and other behavioral health needs.

Under the Office of Insurance Commissioner(OIC)’s proposed rules(attached below), developmentally disabled children could receive very limited medically necessary therapy before coverage would run out. Under that scenario, children could lose all the progress made as a result of the therapy until they have coverage again the next calendar year.  Please take action asking the OIC […]

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22, 2012 --/PRNewswire/ -- A federal court in Philadelphia yesterday granted class action status to a lawsuit brought by the parents of an autistic child against CIGNA Corporation and related CIGNA entities for their policy of denying insurance coverage for an autism treatment known as Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy.  In their lawsuit, the plaintiff, […]

 If you have an insurance plan (through an employer or elsewhere) that does not provide the benefits your child needs, you can purchase a plan now through February 15, 2015 on the Washington Health Benefit Exchange. All HBE plans must cover habilitative and rehabilitative therapies (e.g. speech and OT); they must adhere to Washington state […]