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U.S. Senate to investigate military health insurance denial of long term brain injury rehabilitation coverage

By Michael Kaplen

A U.S. Senate subcommittee announced Friday that it was opening an investigation into the basis of a decision by the Pentagon's health plan to deny a brain injury rehabilitation treatment to troops with traumatic brain injuries. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), the chairman of the subcommittee on contracting oversight, said she wanted to examine the decision by Tricare, the military insurance plan and a study they sponsored concerning the benefits of cognitive rehabilitation therapy for t read more

Full post as published by Brain Injury News and Information on January 23, 2011 (boomark / email).