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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 96468" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Janna, I'm a huge crusader for a thorough multidisciplinary evaluation right up front. Even then it doesn't mean medications won't be suggested prematurely--difficult child's developmental pediatrician reccomended Prozac at the first appointment when we hadn't even completed the process with him, much less any of the other specialists. But I do think parents stand a much better chance at seeing the fuller picture through that route and developing more accurate treatment plans.</p><p></p><p>I will say that I think insurance companies are partly to blame. Our insurance company would have picked up most of the cost for any and all medications he would have been on indefinitely but they </p><p>1) cut the developmental pediatrician coverage in half when they learned his issues were "developmental", </p><p>2) wouldn't pay for any speech/language assessments or therapy unless he'd been in an accident</p><p>3) wouldn't pay for any Occupational Therapist (OT) assessments or therapy unless he'd been in an accident </p><p>4) Not one dime towards the Occupational Therapist (OT) equipment in our house which has helped more than any medication ever did without a single side effect.</p><p></p><p>Now we had the money in savings at the time to follow up with those assessments, therapies, supplies and, equipment (drained the account but we had it). The insurance companies wouldn't pay but a small fraction overall towards those things that would have the greatest potential to help difficult child's issues be identified and worked on so he could function at his highest potential in life *and* become less dependent on the health care system. Without question they were willing to pay full coverage for medications which I suspect would have made him drug dependent for life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 96468, member: 701"] Janna, I'm a huge crusader for a thorough multidisciplinary evaluation right up front. Even then it doesn't mean medications won't be suggested prematurely--difficult child's developmental pediatrician reccomended Prozac at the first appointment when we hadn't even completed the process with him, much less any of the other specialists. But I do think parents stand a much better chance at seeing the fuller picture through that route and developing more accurate treatment plans. I will say that I think insurance companies are partly to blame. Our insurance company would have picked up most of the cost for any and all medications he would have been on indefinitely but they 1) cut the developmental pediatrician coverage in half when they learned his issues were "developmental", 2) wouldn't pay for any speech/language assessments or therapy unless he'd been in an accident 3) wouldn't pay for any Occupational Therapist (OT) assessments or therapy unless he'd been in an accident 4) Not one dime towards the Occupational Therapist (OT) equipment in our house which has helped more than any medication ever did without a single side effect. Now we had the money in savings at the time to follow up with those assessments, therapies, supplies and, equipment (drained the account but we had it). The insurance companies wouldn't pay but a small fraction overall towards those things that would have the greatest potential to help difficult child's issues be identified and worked on so he could function at his highest potential in life *and* become less dependent on the health care system. Without question they were willing to pay full coverage for medications which I suspect would have made him drug dependent for life. [/QUOTE]
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