will medicare cover an asperpers diagnosis?

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any info needed.

I'm pretty sure that it depends on the state that you're in.

No, Medicare is Federal, so whether it'll cover or not depends on Federal regs, and would be the same for all states. I'm sorry that I don't know the answer to the question: are you asking for your parent, or somebody older, dopplercb? At 30, you sure aren't old enough for it to be yourself.

I do know that Medicare does cover (mostly) the Psychiatrist who writes my prescriptions, and not at all my Psychologist, who keeps an eye on how my meds are working, and does talk therapy with me, but by law can't write prescriptions because that's not where her degree is. Neither of them feels qualified to diagnose Asperger's, but either of them _could_, with their particular degrees, if they were stupid enough to think they knew enough. (They're theoretically working on me for Depression, with pills. They got me sent to the State Children's Hospital for the Asperger's diagnosis, but I would guess that's mainly because the Asperger's could (does, actually) have a bearing on the Clinical Depression. )

It's very complicated.

Yeah, it looks like I had gotten confused 'cause there was something to do with medicaid and MassHealth, and I had misremembered the medicaid stuff for medicare.

I am asking for myself. I am disabled. medicare is for the disabled, as well.

my psychiatrist thinks if I have aspergers it isn't serious, because I can communicate well, which is BS. I am going to bring it up again with him, and bring a list of symptoms and issues I have. my therapist thinks I don't talk enough about my feelings, yet the pdoc thinks I communicate well and thus can't have it, or if I do it isn't serious.