Acronyms

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I haven't been in the group long enough to know what most of the acronyms being used are. Does someone have a shortlist of what DD, DS, etc. are?

Thanks"D. Marie Ralstin-" <dralstin@...> wrote:

does your DD have classic autism? I guess what I am asking is what is her level of disability. My DS has high functioning autism, I am not sure if he would qualify.>===== Original Message From Byington <froggienoodle@...> =====>Have you tried to get SSI yet? I am in Georgia & my daughter gets Medicaid through SSI. I don't know what the household income is, but, that does affect eligibilty to one degree or another. It wouldn't hurt to try & find out.>>Laha1960@... wrote:In a message dated 1/17/05 8:02:05 PM Central Standard Time, Autism and Aspergers Treatment writes:>My husband would like to have the RNY or the DS, but can not. We just>>can't afford it. We didn't realize how much ongoing time and money it>>would cost to fight the insurance

company and for basic medical care,>>even though we pay 300-400 per month out of my husband's check for>>insurance, we have a deductable that equals 350 per person in our>>family, and then we pay a $20 plus 20% of the remaininb balance... Go>>figure!!!>> What is RNY or DS?>>We pay the SAME costs you do Rabacca that you listed above AND 20 and 30$ co pays for prescriptions and we have 13 of them, so costs over 100-150$ a month for prescriptions, and 400$ a month for insurance which covers only 20% after the 250$ ded per person per year , and so when the year is done, we pay out over 700$ a month in insurance and medical costs or more. Not too bad, I mean it could be worse, but this is a LARGE percent of OUR pay, so this is not easy.>I can not for the life of me understand how any insurance company could ever allow something like Autism to be

not covered? That sounds illegal for them to pick and chose what they cover. That is a medicasl/mental health thing that needs to be covered. Strange. I am not clear how they get away with NOT covering those thing1.> in IL>>>--------------------------------->