Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Feb. 16, 1996
At issue in this proceeding is whether certain palatal pharyngeal muscle electrostimulation treatments the infant, Maria Carreras, received at the Pediatric Institute Szabadsaghey, Budapest, Hungary, in June 1993, were medically necessary and reasonable medical or habilitative and training expenses, as required by Section 766.31(1)(a), Florida Statutes, such that the expenses for treatment and related travel are recoverable under the Florida Birth- Related Injury Compensation Plan (the Plan). 1/Case of first impression defining "medically necessary and reasonable" medical expenses under the Act as not limited to those accepted by most Doctors.
