Kerima Çevik @kerimacevik.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Reporting Highlights Secret Playbook: Leaked documents show that UnitedHealth is aggressively targeting the treatment of thousands of children with autism across the country in an effort to cut costs. 100
Kerima Çevik @kerimacevik.bsky.social · 17/12/2024 Critical Therapy: Applied behavior analysis has been shown to help kids with autism; many are covered by Medicaid, federal insurance for poor and vulnerable patients. 200
Hugo Grotius @hugogrotius.bsky.social · 17/12/2024bsky.app/profile/clea...♾️Clear Autism♾️@clearautism.bsky.social"The 2018 Advances in Autism study, for example, predicted that nearly half of autistic children exposed to ABA will meet the threshold for a PTSD diagnosis within four weeks, while caregivers’ satisfaction will rise as the treatment goes on." Long read: www.the74million.org/article/amer...the74million.orgAmerica’s Most Popular Autism Therapy May Not Work — and May Seriously Harm Patients’ Mental HealthApplied behavior analysis has long been considered the gold standard. Now, people who have been through it are pushing back. 200
Kerima Çevik @kerimacevik.bsky.social · 17/12/2024 Legal Questions: Advocates told ProPublica the insurer’s strategy may be violating federal law. 000
