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The issue of how insurers cover brain-injury rehab made national headlines in December, when news reports disclosed that the Department of Defense 's insurance carrier, Tricare, refused to pay for cognitive therapy — a collection of intensive exercises that improve cognitive function — calling it experimental.

For brain injuries, a treatment gap 2011

Hovda, a leading brain-injury researcher, blames the absence of data on a lack of funding.

For brain injuries, a treatment gap 2011

Although Medicare, Medicaid and most insurers cover the brain surgery and intensive care necessary to save the lives of patients with such traumatic brain injuries, Manley says, most insurers scrimp on benefits for rehab programs, costly brain-injury "boot camps" that challenge patients to relearn skills and abilities destroyed by brain trauma.

For brain injuries, a treatment gap 2011

Although Medicare, Medicaid and most insurers cover the brain surgery and intensive care necessary to save the lives of patients with such traumatic brain injuries, Manley says, most insurers scrimp on benefits for rehab programs, costly brain-injury "boot camps" that challenge patients to relearn skills and abilities destroyed by brain trauma.

For brain injuries, a treatment gap 2011

The issue of how insurers cover brain-injury rehab made national headlines in December, when news reports disclosed that the Department of Defense 's insurance carrier, Tricare, refused to pay for cognitive therapy — a collection of intensive exercises that improve cognitive function — calling it experimental.

For brain injuries, a treatment gap 2011

Only Texas requires major insurers to cover comprehensive brain-injury rehab, a mandate championed by a legislator who discovered after her husband's stroke that their insurance plan did not cover needed rehabilitation services.

For brain injuries, a treatment gap 2011

Hovda, a leading brain-injury researcher, blames the absence of data on a lack of funding.

For brain injuries, a treatment gap 2011

Most say they cover cognitive therapy and other brain-injury services, but each policy carries limitations.

For brain injuries, a treatment gap 2011

The issue of how insurers cover brain-injury rehab made national headlines in December, when news reports disclosed that the Department of Defense 's insurance carrier, Tricare, refused to pay for cognitive therapy — a collection of intensive exercises that improve cognitive function — calling it experimental.

For brain injuries, a treatment gap 2011

Most say they cover cognitive therapy and other brain-injury services, but each policy carries limitations.

For brain injuries, a treatment gap 2011