Re: Insurance for Speech therapy

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In a message dated 8/18/00 1:51:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kingma@...

writes:

> I

> was wondering what state it was in because recently a few state have passed

> legislation for mandated benefits for congenital birth defects.

Yes, CO is one of them, but they only provide 20 sessions a week. My friends

daughter had 50 sessions of speech last yr and only 20 this yr as this is all

they HAVE to provide!

Maybe we should talk to the people who write the laws and ask them where they

got their criteria from?

Orla

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I am confused -- why would genetic hearing loss exclude someone from

receiving speech therapy? Is it that, since this is how they were

born, they are not meant to speak like other people? But if their

hearing loss were caused by CMV or rubella, then they were actually

meant to be able to hear, and therefore speak, so they should receive

speech therapy? Please help me understand!

>Hi,

>

>I was skimming through the last digest and remembered something about

>genetic hearing loss which would result in exclusion of speech therapy. I

>was wondering what state it was in because recently a few state have passed

>legislation for mandated benefits for congenital birth defects.

>

>Senator McCain's family went thru something similar with their daughter

>and the need of speech therapy because of a cleft plate and it was denied.

>Give his office a call! Maybe is we make enough noise... it just might wake

>up our elected officials to the real needs of our kids.

>

>Good Luck & hang in there!

>

>Angie

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>Please help me understand!

Can anyone really understand why insurance companies cover/not cover what

they do? They wont cover your feet (ingrown toenails, bunions, etc..) or

hearing aids. Gee, i guess its not important that we walk & hear. But boy

i'll bet they will cover getting a fake um... " upper torso thing " , like thats

important to live!! I give up trying to understand!

Betty