For a Health Insurance Terms Glossary, please go to the Health Insurance Resource Center website www.healthinsurance.org/insterms.lasso

For information regarding the Indiana Department of Insurance (IDOI) or to file an e-complaint with the IDOI, or to download the IDOI Health Insurance Consumer Action Guide, please go to the IDOI website
www.state.in.us/idoi/consumer_services/hicag.html

Indiana State law, IC 27-8-14.2, Health Insurance Mandate for Autism, requires certain health insurance plans to cover treatment for autism spectrum disorders. This law covers HMOs, group and individual plans that are regulated under state, as opposed to federal, law. To find out if your child is covered, you must find out if your health insurance plan is regulated under Indiana State Law.

To view the text of the law, go to www.IN.gov/legislative , choose the "Laws and Administrative Rules" tab, Choose the "Indiana Code" tab, then scroll down to the four empty boxes. Put 27 in the first box, 8 in the second, 14.2 in the third, and leave the fourth box blank, hit Go.

To view the Indiana Department of Insurance (IDOI) Bulletin on the Health Insurance Mandate for Autism, download the document here.

Bulletin 136 PDF

Little Star Center hosts periodic health insurance workshops with Michele Trivedi, a parent of a child with autism who has a background in managed care and worked with the IDOI to develop Bulletin 136. Please see our schedule of events for the next workshop, or call our Director for more information.

ABA is one of the treatments that is covered under this mandate. Little Star has had several families who have received full or partial coverage for their services.