Research: Services for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Payment Issues

Authored by Wegner, LM, and Macias MM in Pediatric Annals, Volume 38, Issue 1, p. 57-61, (2009).

Article summary (posted Apr 30, 2009):

In order to provide a medical home for children with autism, doctors will likely have to spend time developing and working with teams of community-based specialists.

This article describes how insurance can be billed to pay for the many services that are often required for children with autism. The authors start by stating that every parent who takes their infant and young child to visit the doctor should ask about child development. If there seems to be a problem, then a screening test can be given and these can be charged to insurance. The time needed to score and explain the test to parents can also be billed to insurance. The article goes on to describe how codes can be used to bill insurance for care of children with autism.

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adolescent, autism, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), child development, doctor, home, infant, insurance, medical home, parent, pediatric
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