Getting Insurance Reimbursement For Reading Remediation

I don’t think you will get this one. It is NOT medical and it is NOT psychological. Good luck.

Here in Canada you can claim tutoring, talking books, travel expenses to and from the tutor, etc. under medical expenses on both federial and provincial income taxes. Contact your local LD Chapter, they may be able to help you get the right information for your taxation system.

Wow! $80 per session seems excessive. I’ve never heard of tutoring being more than $55 even at clinics here in Florida. I’m O-G and LMB trained, and I only charge $35 for a 1 hour session. Am I naive or what?

This is very interesting. I pulled out my bill. I am charged $81 for a 45 minute session. They bill it as treatment code: 92507 and diagnostic code 784.61. During the regular school year they correspond sessions with report card periods, and they make you pay the money for the sessions up front.

The place where I go here in IL is very professional, the folks are great and it is run by an OG Fellow and all the tutors are OG tutors in training. It is done at a professional office, they give us great feedback at the end of each session and the recommend we sit in to watch. Many kids woh go to LD Schools still pay out of pocket to come to this place.

We just started (we signed up for an 8 week session) and we are seeing success, but it is cost prohibitive and we are just out right tired of hauling our son around.

There is only one other option within 45 minutes of my home. It is a mother daughter team out of their home, but over the phone they are not very professional, I don’t think out of the home is conducive for a focused session and they are booked up anyway.

I am thinking of buying the OG materials and/or going to a class so I can do some of it on my own. We’ll see how my son does at the LD School he is strating this summer and full-time in the fall. I want what I do at home, and if I continue private sessions to be integrated.

If I were you I’d do a market survey to find out the pricing and policies of your competitors in your area.

Also, the regular classroom teachers who do tutoring charge $40 per hour for tutoring. They do not have special ed degrees. That’s the going rate in the Northern Suburbs of Chicago.

LMB clinics charge approximately $695 for a diagnostic session in CA and the rates are $75 an hour…Private therapy centers for LD’s also charge $55 to $65 an hour. SLP’s make $90.00 an hour privately an hour Psychologists that I know of charge $190 an hour. I personally charge 40% more than your going rate…and I also do pro-bono tutoring when parents can’t afford it.

What does SLP stand for? Speech Language P????

Speech and Langauge Pathologist, that is what I am becoming in a few more semesters of grad school..

The only way I have gotten reimbursement was so use a speech language pathologist who was trained in PhonoGraphix (and other reading methods) to tutor my son. Because she was an SLP, she could code the bills in such a way that my insurance would pay them (at least partially).

Although, my tutoring expenses were not high enough to qualify. My accountant told me that if you get a note from a doctor that you child needs tutoring it can be claimed as a medical expenses. This of course, depends upon your income, other medical expenses etc. At $80 an hour it is worth checking it out.

Good luck.