The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services is setting aside $3 million to help cover treatment and support services for children at risk of entering the justice or foster-care systems. The one-time funding boost is being distributed through the state’s 50 alcohol, drug and mental health boards, and should be available starting March […]
All of Ohio’s Medicaid Managed Care Plans (MCPs) will now offer benefits for applied behavior analysis (ABA) for children with autism per the Department of Medicaid. MCPs will offer ABA providers single case agreements per each consumer with autism requesting ABA treatment. Ohio Medicaid still does not have a dedicated ABA Medicaid state plan benefit
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Approved for use in patients 2 and older to treat two types of epileptic syndromes: Dravet syndrome, a rare genetic dysfunction of the brain that begins in the first year of life, and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a form of epilepsy with multiple types of seizures that begins in early childhood, usually between ages 3 and 5.https://www.cnn.com/…/marijuana-drug-epidiolex-…/index.html…
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This is good news for Ohio families that rely on the ACA Exchange plans for health care and access to the autism directive benefits Governor Kasich placed in Ohio’s ACA Exchange plans. Many families receive subsidies to help pay for premiums and some Ohio families purchase a “child only” ACA Exchange plan just access ABA
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The American Medical Association will be replacing the temporary CPT® codes insurance and ABA practitioners use for billing and reimbursing ABA (applied behavior analysis) treatment services with new permanent CPT® codes. Effective January 1, 2019, the new codes for adaptive behavior assessment and treatment (ABA) will roll out. ABA Practitioners, insurance carriers and the Coalition
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Ohio law requires the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program to be fully operational by September 2018. What 21 original medical conditions qualify a patient for treatment with cannabis? AIDS, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gerhig’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Cancer, Chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE, Crohn’s disease, Epilepsy or another seizure disorder, Fibromyalgia, Glaucoma, Hepatitis C,
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Anthem Insurance Cos. Inc. will pay almost $1.63 million to end claims that it violated federal benefit laws by placing certain caps on the coverage of therapy treatments for children with severe autism disorders. Anthem also agrees to stop using guidelines that base coverage of applied behavior analysis therapy for autism solely on an individual’s
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An Indianapolis company is bringing two autism therapy centers to central Ohio as part of a plan to ultimately open 20 sites and provide about 1,000 jobs across the state. The Hopebridge centers, slated to open in late April in Dublin and Westerville, are among 10 the company plans to have operating within a year, chief executive Dennis May
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“The Military Health System will continue to provide health care to its beneficiaries during a government shutdown. While we can’t predict the exact consequences of a shutdown on every part of our MHS, we may see some impacts on the delivery of health care services within our military hospitals and clinics. Inpatient, acute and emergency
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