Bonus Episode 9 - Autism Insurance Reform w/ Amy Weinstock
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Not a day goes by that the treatment and care for children with autism and their families isn't in the news. Sadly, many recent headlines have focused on the alarming challenges that these families face in looking for effective treatment (i.e., ABA) even with the sweeping changes to insurance coverage of autism treatment signed into law in nearly all the U.S. Luckily, we had an amazing opportunity to speak to Amy Weinstock of the Autism Insurance Resource Center about this and other topics related to insurance for autism treatment including a discussion of her important role in bringing this legislation to Massachusetts, her ongoing work to support families in understanding their rights under the law, and what all BCBAs need to know about insurance.
And if you still have more questions after listening, why not contact the awesome people at the Autism Resource Center yourself?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track. I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and I'm going solo for the moment to introduce |
| 0:23.8 | our special bonus episode. Now, for those of you who are listening, we're pretty sure |
| 0:29.3 | 99.9% of you are BCBAs or are studying to be a BCBA or a BCBAD. And we are pretty sure that even though we all know that behavior analysis |
| 0:40.2 | can be used to solve every single problem that there ever was, a vast majority of us and a vast |
| 0:45.4 | majority of you got into this field to work with children, young adults, and adults with autism. And of course, one of the big changes that has allowed |
| 0:56.6 | ABA to become such a commonly known treatment for autism has been so much insurance reform |
| 1:04.6 | happening in the past five to eight years, maybe a little bit longer than that, in this country, at least in America. |
| 1:12.6 | And one of the people here in Massachusetts, where we are located, who has been instrumental |
| 1:18.0 | in this change, is Amy Weinstock. Now, Amy is certainly not the only individual responsible |
| 1:25.6 | for all of the amazing changes that have happened for |
| 1:28.4 | insurance reform in the state of Massachusetts, but she is certainly one of the more well-known |
| 1:34.6 | and really influential folks. She's currently the director of the Autism Insurance Resource |
| 1:39.9 | Center, and we had the chance to sit down and talk with her about insurance and the process |
| 1:45.7 | of changing the insurance laws, and then sort of what insurance in Massachusetts related to |
| 1:52.1 | autism treatment kind of means to the average practitioner. |
| 1:55.3 | So we really hope you enjoy this interview with Amy Weinstock. |
| 1:59.9 | Well, again, Amy, thank you so much for being on on the show. |
| 2:04.5 | It's really great to have you here. So I'm happy to be here. So my first question is sort of just a standard one. |
| 2:10.5 | Some of our listeners aren't from Massachusetts and may not be familiar with your work. So how did you get to |
| 2:15.8 | become the big insurance guru here in Massachusetts? |
| 2:20.3 | It was sort of a bad accident. I came to this as a consumer. I have a daughter who is 20, |
| 2:29.1 | who was diagnosed with autism about 18 years ago. I had no reference, no connection with autism or the field or anything, and we quickly, |
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