Sen. Murray seeks expansion of behavorial therapy for military families

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http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/11/27/2916795/murray-seeks-expansion-of-behavorial.html

Sen. Murray seeks expansion of behavorial therapy for military families
By ADAM ASHTON
Staff writer
November 27, 2013

Two of Miranda Fort’s three children have different developmental disabilities that affect the way they relate to the world.

To help them, doctors recommended both try behavioral therapy that would teach them social and coping skills.

Yet that treatment, known as applied behavioral analysis, is covered for only one of the two children under the Navy family’s Tricare health insurance. The other daughter, Josie, can’t get the therapy because she has not been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, the condition for which Tricare offers the treatment.

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Her family is working to make that goal happen as fast as possible by getting behind a proposal from U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., that would compel the insurance agency to expand its offerings for behavioral therapy. The Forts joined Murray on Tuesday at a Seattle press conference to promote the effort.