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Autism and Insurance with Lori Unumb covers Ryan\u2019s law, insurance coverage for autism in different states, how to appeal denials.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>In this\u00a0 webinar, moderator and autism author Chantal Sicile-Kira discusses the issues surrounding autism\u00a0 and insurance companies with speaker\u00a0 Lorri Unumb. Lori\u00a0 drafted a groundbreaking bill, \u201cRyan\u2019s Law\u201dwhich\u00a0 allowed greater access to insurance for\u00a0 autistic children. Issues such as types of coverage, how to make claims, how to appeal denials and how to change.<\/p>\n

Speaker:\u00a0 Lorri Unumb<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lorri Unumb<\/strong>, is an attorney and\u00a0 the mother of a seven year old son with autism whose name is Ryan. She graduated from the\u00a0 University of South Carolina School of Law in 1993. She also attended USC\u00a0 for undergraduate work, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.\u00a0 At present, Lorri serves as senior policy advisor in council with\u00a0 the autism advocacy organization, Autism Speaks. For her work on Ryan\u2019s law, South\u00a0 Carolina\u2019s groundbreaking autism insurance mandate, Lorri won the Jefferson Award for\u00a0 public service, the Autism Speaks 2008 Advocacy award, the Autism Society of America\u2019s\u00a0 2008 parents of the year award \u2013 with her husband \u2013 the Rotary Service Above Self award, the\u00a0 Behavior Analyst\u2019s Certification Board\u2019s Hemmingway award, and the Spencer Volunteer\u00a0 award from South Carolina Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The daily expenses of your autistic child\/adult cost more than you can afford? Then turn to your insurance company for help! Find out what are the rules and regulations for autism in your state, how to deal with denials, how to access insurance for autistic and what covers such insurance from Lorri Unumb. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webinars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsfightingautism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsfightingautism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsfightingautism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsfightingautism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsfightingautism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsfightingautism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsfightingautism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsfightingautism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsfightingautism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsfightingautism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}