Health insurance companies are denying treatment for some autistic children, but a consumer advocacy group has stepped in to try to stop it. If that fails, how will these families find help paying back these high medical bills for their children’s necessary medical treatment?
Our firm’s San Diego personal injury lawyers often help our clients pay their medical bills. On many occasions, our clients are injured in automobile accidents, and we help them by settling a personal injury claim with their auto accident insurance company.
Families with children suffering from autism, meanwhile, are receiving help for their medical bills by way of a consumer advocate group, Consumer Watchdog. Consumer Watchdog filed a lawsuit, on the families’ behalf, to order the Department of Managed Health Care to require insurers to provide autistic members with the services recommended by their physician.
Currently, one in 150 children are born with autism. A child with autism has difficulty communicating and socializing with others and often exhibit repetitive, injury-causing behavior. Treatment for autism can be very expensive, sometimes as much as $70,000 a year in medical bills, so health care providers have been attempting to avoid footing the medical bill for it.
In 1999, California lawmakers adopted the Mental Health Parity Act, requiring insurers to cover medical care for mental and behavioral disabilities with the same coverage as physical illnesses and personal injuries. So when physicians tell the parents of an autistic child that their child needs expensive behavior-modification therapy, how do they say no to the health of their child, even at the high cost of these medical bills?
Without help from the courts, many autistic children will suffer and many families could face medical bill-related bankruptcies.
Our San Diego personal injury attorneys know that today’s economy has made things hard on a lot of people. With so many unemployed and without health care, there are a lot of families struggling to make ends meet. If you do not have medical insurance and are injured in a car accident, our personal injury firm in San Diego can help you pay back your medical bills.
Please feel free to call us now at 1-800-655-6585 or you can click here for a free consultation with an experienced personal injury lawyer in San Diego. We have a large bilingual staff that can assist you in either English or Spanish. No fee if no recovery.
About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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