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#UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With #Autism

Reporting 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.

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.

Legal Questions: Advocates told ProPublica the insurer’s strategy may be violating federal law.

#UHC are fucking monsters, and if I had the power to strip the wealth from them and give it to these families, I would do it without question.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealthcare-insurance-autism-denials-applied-behavior-analysis-medicaid

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