{"id":40931,"date":"2026-04-10T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40931"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:46:25","slug":"insurance-coverage-required-for-certain-pediatric-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40931","title":{"rendered":"Insurance coverage required for certain pediatric disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 10 that requires Nebraska insurers to cover treatments for two related pediatric autoimmune disorders that manifest as mental health disorders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32948\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32948\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32948\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDungan_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nebraska Senator George C. Dungan III. District 26. November 14, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1668445841&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2022, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;115&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenDungan_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. George Dungan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. George Dungan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDungan_inline-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDungan_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32948\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDungan_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. George Dungan\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDungan_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDungan_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. George Dungan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB762, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. George Dungan, requires coverage of treatment for pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) and pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), a subset of PANS.<\/p>\n<p>Required PANS\/PANDAS treatments must be recommended by the patient&#8217;s licensed physician and include, but are not limited to, antibiotics, medication and behavioral therapies to manage neuropsychiatric symptoms, plasma exchange and immunoglobulin.<\/p>\n<p>LB762 passed on a 45-4 vote and takes effect Jan. 1, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 10 that requires Nebraska insurers to cover treatments for two related pediatric autoimmune disorders that manifest as mental health disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[278],"class_list":["post-40931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-commerce-and-insurance","tag-sen-george-dungan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40933,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40931\/revisions\/40933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}