General CEU: Denials 101: What You Need To Know About ABA Service Denials, Appeals, and More!

Julie Kornack has spent more than a decade increasing access to mental health services by shaping legislation, regulation, and policy at the federal, state, and local levels. Her work includes identifying, developing, and supporting federal and state initiatives that safeguard and increase access to autism services and supports, as well as analyzing the impact of federal and state legislative and regulatory developments on access to mental health services. She is co-author of The Diversity Is in the Details: Unintentional Language Discrimination in the Practice of Applied Behavior Analysis and A Response to Papatola and Lustig’s Paper on Navigating a Managed Care Peer Review: Guidance for Clinicians Using Applied Behavior Analysis in the Treatment of Individuals on the Autism Spectrum, published in Behavior Analysis in Practice, and is the author of The History, Pitfalls, and Promise of Licensure in the Field of Behavior Analysis, published in Handbook of Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Her analysis of the economics of autism treatment was published in the Handbook of Early Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorders: Research, Policy, and Practice, and she was an editor of Evidence-Based Treatment for Children with Autism: The CARD Model. She is the ABAI representative on the ABA Billing Codes Commission. She co-founded and serves on the board of directors of the National Coalition for Access to Autism Services and serves on multiple state and national advisory councils, committees, and task forces. She has helped develop disability health policy for state and federal political campaigns, and she is a co-author of the Democratic National Committee’s Disability Primer for Democratic Candidates.