SNAP’s Medical Insurance Empowerment Program is an innovative service designed to help parents of children with special needs get the most out of their private medical insurance plans, including therapies, medical equipment, nursing and other care. Our brochure gives you all the details. If you don’t have private medical insurance, please review the information we’ve provided on Medicaid.
The Process:
- Initial discussion with SN
AP about the problem and what’s been done so far.
- Parents gather and send to SNAP all paperwork, documentation, and medical reports related to the situation along with a nominal $10 processing fee.
- SNAP reviews the paperwork and arranges a follow up session with parents.
- SNAP and the parents develop an approach to work with the medical insurance company and other local and national resources to solve the problem.
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Rest assured that SNAP respects your right to privacy and will not disclose any of your personal medical information. If you are interested in contacting SNAP by e-mail for medical insurance problem-solving, please fill out this online form or call our toll-free number 888-310-9889.
The Medical Insurance Empowerment Checklist
One of the most important steps to the process is to provide SNAP with the paperwork, documentation and supporting reports necessary to help find the best ways to work with private medical insurance companies. Print out this handy Paperwork Checklist and be sure to make copies of the requested items and keep the originals in your files.
Generally, SNAP will ask for the following information to get started:
- Your name, address, phone number, e-mail, fax number
- Child(ren) name, age, sex, and kind of special need
- What kind of insurance coverage: individual or employer sponsored? HMO, PPO, or indemnity plan?
- Description of the situation or pre-approval request
- Summary of actions taken to address the issues
Learn More
To learn more about how to empower yourself to work more positively with medical insurance provider, check out these tactics and resources.
7 Tips on Successful Medical Advocacy
A Parent’s Video Guide to Medical Insurance Empowerment
Medicaid Resources
Buffy's Battle
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