Autism and Co-Occurring Medical Conditions Awareness Act

• Promotes awareness, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of medical conditions that occur more commonly in persons with autism spectrum disorders, including allergies, autoimmune conditions, gastrointestinal diseases, immune dysregulation, and seizure disorders.

• Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders for individuals under 21 years old with a maximum annual benefit of $36,000 (adjusted annually for inflation), including psychiatric care, psychological care, behavioral analysis, and therapeutic services.

• Strongly encourages healthcare providers to evaluate individuals with autism for co-occurring medical conditions when clinical symptoms are present and to consider whether medications or substances may exacerbate symptoms.

• Protects parents and guardians from losing custody or parental rights for seeking additional medical opinions or pursuing treatments for co-occurring conditions, and prohibits denying individuals the right to decline medical treatments.

• Prohibits insurers from denying coverage, refusing renewal, or terminating policies based on an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis or because an individual declines a medication that their provider determined would exacerbate symptoms; requires initial insurance authorization for immune gamma globulin therapy to be at least 3 months.