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Doctors, like ours, do have an incentive.  With an autism diagnosis, we can get ABA, speech, OT and PT, without much difficulty.  Before we had the diagnosis, we had to private pay services and they would not cover it.  Doctor wanted child in services, so doctor gives the diagnosis to make sure we can get the diagnosis paid for.  Many insurances only pay for services under autism.

They aren't getting kick-backs, but they are doing it to get kids services that kids may not have access to depending on the parents financial situation.

We go the diagnosis after a 30 minute visit, mostly talking to me.  Our follow-ups are 15-20 minutes.[/quote]

You go to a lousy, lazy doctor. There are examples of people doing their job poorly in every profession; just because you got a junk ASD diagnosis after 30 minutes doesn't mean that most -- or even many -- doctors hand out autism diagnoses because of "incentives."[/quote]

Again, you keep failing to understand what "incentivizing" here means. Didn't do well in English class, eh?

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Regardless of what you want incentivize to mean, my point is that by diagnosing after only 30 minutes, you/your child did not get good medical care. You cannot extrapolate from your experience to the experiences of those of us that did get careful, thorough medical care and evaluations.[/quote]

The [b]money trail of autism is easy to follow[/b], actually, if you get your head out of the sand.

This doesn't mean children aren't accurately diagnosed. It means the [i]whole system is set up to encourage doctors to give ASD diagnosis for a much broader range of symptoms[/i], and parents to accept because they are desperate for speech, OT, ABA, etc. [/quote]

Again, paranoid B.S. that you cannot prove.  The articles you posted previously only highlighted that some kids who are profoundly intellectually disabled sometimes get lumped in with autism.  Also, not every kid with autism needs ABA or OT.  Plus there are lots of specialists that you need to pay out of pocket for like psychiatrists or educational evaluations regardless of diagnosis.

There are actually evidence based instruments that diagnose autism, learning disabilities, or communication disorders.  You would actually know this if you got your child a neuropsych evaluation.  Talk about head in the sand.  You cling to an out-of-date diagnosis.  You choose to accept services under a diagnosis, IEP or not and pay out of pocket.  Your [b]choice[/b]. [/quote]

OP is right to be careful about who she takes her child to. Autism is highly subjective:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/child-in-mind/201508/dilemmas-in-diagnosis-is-it-autism-anxiety-or-neither

Dilemmas in Diagnosis: Is it Autism, Anxiety, or Neither?
The need for a label may limit our search for understanding and healing
Posted Aug 30, 2015

For his PhD thesis, Phech Colatat at MIT Sloan School of Business Management reviewed records from three clinics established specifically for autism spectrum diagnosis.   [b]At two centers the rate was around 35% while at a third the rate was 65%[/b]. The MIT news release about the study states:

Those rates persisted over time, even when Colatat filtered for race, environmental factors, and parents’ education.

But then comes what may be the most interesting finding:

.[b].when doctors moved from one clinic to another, their rates of diagnosis immediately changed to match that of the clinic as a whole.[/b]

Colotat, based on extensive interviews and observations within the clinics, develops a theory for this phenomenon: imprinting. The article continues:

He conducted dozens of interviews with the clinicians to get a sense of how they had learned to diagnose autism. What he heard was the same few names again and again. At one clinic, a consultant from a nearby university had served as an intellectual mentor to the staff. She had impressed upon them how subtle the signs of autism can be, and as a result, they tended to give out the diagnosis more readily. [b]At another, the clinic’s first director instilled the belief that autism can look like a lot of other conditions, which caused staff to be more conservative. These charismatic individuals made an impression that lasted.
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