Insurers balk at reconstructive surgery in Illinois
Insurers often deny coverage for breast reconstruction beyond postmastectomy care. A bill would require payment for all stages of reconstruction including symmetry surgery for a non diseased breast and deformity correction for children. The measure stalled in the House Rules Committee but may return in the fall veto session.
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Dyann Bochstahler
Homewood
Bochstahler
Illinois General Assembly
House Rules Committee
Gwenn Klinger
Sangamon
American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
ASPRS
Illinois
Dennis Lynch
Temple
Texas
American Medical Association
AMA
United States
Lynch
Sharon Power
Glencoe
U.S
Ireland
Ance Company
Power
Skokie Country Club
United HealthCare of Illinois
United HealthCare
HMO
Kaveh Safavi
Safavi
John Polley
Polley
Craniofacial Center
University of Illinois At Chicago Medical Center
David Dreyfuss
Orland Park
State awards mental health program funds
Illinois will distribute 3.3 million dollars in state mental health funds to eight South Suburbs agencies and others for 1998 and 1999. Grand Prairie Services in Flossmoor will receive 97,800 this year and 293,400 next year to stabilize illness, build skills, train for jobs, and provide peer support. Other recipients include Thresholds in Blue Island 391,200 Cornerstone Services in Joliet 128,000 and Trinity Services in Joliet 140,700.
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Chicago
Howard Peters
Illinois Department of Human Services
Peters
Tinley Park Mental Health Center
Illinois
Grand Prairie
Dennis Regnier
Blue Island
Cornerstone Services
Joliet
Trinity Services
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