What would be the first step to help my child?
Our first step together would involve a discussion with you and one of our staff members. This is important for two reasons. First, we'll need to get a handle on what issues your child is struggling with. Secondly, and most importantly, it is important that you take this time to see if you feel comfortable with us. You are about to make an incredibly important decision to entrust your child's psychological and behavioral health with us, and we want you to be 100% comfortable with the our staff.
Since each child's experience is unique, it would be hard to identify the form that our initial discussion will take. Ultimately, our focus during this first meeting is to identify what needs your child and your family have, and develop a general course of action to deal with these issues.
Our next step would involve meeting with your child. While some children would feel comfortable meeting with our staff alone, many others need the re-assurance of their parents to be close by. That decision will need to be made collectively based on the child's needs. The focus during this meeting will be to develop a diagnostic formulation and solidify a plan to deal with your child's issues. Often this plan will involve either Applied Behavior Analysis, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, or more often, a combination of elements of both types of interventions.
Since each child's experience is unique, it would be hard to identify the form that our initial discussion will take. Ultimately, our focus during this first meeting is to identify what needs your child and your family have, and develop a general course of action to deal with these issues.
Our next step would involve meeting with your child. While some children would feel comfortable meeting with our staff alone, many others need the re-assurance of their parents to be close by. That decision will need to be made collectively based on the child's needs. The focus during this meeting will be to develop a diagnostic formulation and solidify a plan to deal with your child's issues. Often this plan will involve either Applied Behavior Analysis, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, or more often, a combination of elements of both types of interventions.
What is applied behavior analysis?
It's sometimes so hard to understand why your child is acting in a particular way. It's made even worse when these actions can cause a lot of distress to your child as well as other around her or him. Applied behavior analysis or ABA is a set of scientifically based principles and procedures that can help you uncover why your child is experiencing these difficulties and develop plans to help your child develop skills to overcome these issues.
What insurance policies does Livanis Behavioral Consulting currently accept?
Currently our service providers accept*
- Beacon Health(Value Options)
- NYS Empire Plan (including Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield)
- GHI
- MagnaCare
- Anthem
- Emblem Health (HMO & non HMO 7)
- MVP- (HMO and non HMO and Medicaid)
- Oscar Plan
- Aetna
- Oxford
- UnitedHealth Care
- FidelisCare
Important Note about Medicaid and Managed Medicaid plans
New York State has recently allowed Medicaid and Managed-Medicaid insurance plans to cover ABA services.
While we are authorized to take Medicaid, at this point we are concerned about the a variety of issues. As such we are not providing ABA therapy at this time to members who are enrolled in Medicaid and Managed-Medicaid insurance plans. We are currently compiling interested members on a waitlist.
There are many inconsistencies and lack of guidance from the Centers for Medicaid Systems as to how these services will be billed and we are waiting for further clarification before we begin to provide services to clients with Medicaid and Medicaid-managed health care plans.
We appreciate your patience while we try to sort this all out with the state.
*It may be useful to contact your insurance carrier to ask specifically if ABA services are covered for individuals in your family diagnosed with ASD. Some plans have various levels or tiers and often the lowest tier does not cover ABA services.
For more information, please download our Parent Explanation of Assessment and Authorization