What is SPAN?
Services Parity for Autism and Neurodevelopment (SPAN) is a grass roots workgroup focused on the health insurance barriers that unnecessarily impede access to services often provided to the autism and neurodevelopmental disability communities.
What is this survey?
We invite clinical service providers (psychologists, physicians, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, behavior analysts, etc.) to pool their collective experiences regarding health insurance barriers -- i.e., when your professional expertise and widely accepted best practices indicate that a service is appropriate and necessary to deliver, the person/family desires that service, and the insurance provider denies or otherwise impedes access.
What is the goal?
Our hope is that qualitative and quantitative data on the impact of insurance-related barriers will be a useful advocacy tool for individual situations (i.e., peer-to-peer consultations to justify a service) and a mechanism for structural change (e.g., payer practices, insurance law).
Completing this professional practice survey is optional, and should take between 10-15 minutes. You will not be asked to provide identifying information about yourself (or any identifiable patient health information). Results will be disseminated in aggregate form for advocacy purposes (though representative free response comments may be exerpted).
The final page of the survey will redirect you to a seperate form that is NOT LINKED TO YOUR RESPONSES where you can share your email address if you would like to be notified when results and other resources are shared. To receive updates without participating, select "no" below. Please direct questions to IDEA@MED.CORNELL.EDU.