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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP-thanks. Does anyone know if Conlon or Belsito take insurance? (And if not, how much an initial evaluation costs?)[/quote]

This is the answer to your original question of why there are so few developmental pediatricians.  They, like many other doctors, get shafted by insurance companies.  I look at our regular pediatrician bills and our insurance company pays something like 25-30% of the bill and then the pediatrician's office has to eat the rest of the costs.  It gets to the point where for certain types of patients, they can't make enough to cover the basic costs of running  a small business.  They often can only make up enough by either limiting which insurances they take (which limits the clientele) or by doing high volume, less time consuming practice and unfortunately developmental pediatrics is neither of those.  So, many practitioners don't go into that field unless they work for a larger medical group like Johns  Hopkins.

Really, the health insurance industry is very unkind to doctors (says someone whose spouse has long-term and high medical expenses and whose children have an above average amount of medical expenses).  [/quote]

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