New Jersey A3745 mandates health insurance and Medicaid coverage for stuttering treatment.

New Jersey A3745 requires health insurance and Medicaid to cover treatment for stuttering, including habilitative and rehabilitative speech therapy. This applies to various health insurance plans and the Medicaid program. Coverage must be provided whether services are delivered in-person or through telemedicine or telehealth. The bill defines "habilitative speech therapy" as therapy to help a person keep, learn, or improve skills and functioning for daily living, and "rehabilitative speech therapy" as therapy to restore or improve skills and functioning for daily living that have been lost or.

New Jersey A3745 mandates health insurance and Medicaid coverage for stuttering treatment.

New Jersey A3745 requires health insurance and Medicaid to cover treatment for stuttering, including habilitative and rehabilitative speech therapy. This applies to various health insurance plans and the Medicaid program. Coverage must be provided whether services are delivered in-person or through telemedicine or telehealth. The bill defines "habilitative speech therapy" as therapy to help a person keep, learn, or improve skills and functioning for daily living, and "rehabilitative speech therapy" as therapy to restore or improve skills and functioning for daily living that have been lost or.