Healthcare Litigation

A therapy for children with autism must be covered by public insurance companies, a California appeals court has ruled.
 

Applied Behavior Analysis — or ABA — "is a system in which every moment and action by the child is monitored and rewarded by the therapist on a one-to-one relationship for periods of 35, 40 hours a week," plaintiffs' attorney Fred Woocher said.

Santa Monica, CA -- In a complex opinion issued yesterday, the California Court of Appeal ended the Department of Managed Health Care’s (DMHC) discriminatory practice of allowing HMOs to deny treatment for autistic children of state employees and low-income families enrolled in the Healthy Families program on the basis that such treatment can only be administered through state-licensed providers.