If you’re interested in listening in on a meeting of the Strategic Plan Workgroup of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) under the Combating Autism Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-416), go to the end of this post.
For the past several months, insurance—as in having insurance companies pay for treatments for autistic children—-has been a regular topic; a number of states have passed legislation (or not passed legislation) requiring that private insurance companies provide for treatment. A July 6th LA Times entitled Who pays for autism treatment links the “explosion in the number of children diagnosed” with autism with a battle …read more