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 Behavioral 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...
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