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Is stuttering an illness?

The letter from the Medical Care Foundation Peer Review Panel was a plaintive one. "[Insurance Company] has requested we review this claim and give an opinion as to whether stuttering is an illness. If you cannot make a decision on this claim, any suggestions regarding which specialty to send it to would be helpful." The envelope that brought me this letter contained claims forms, rejection notices, appeals, denials of appeals, medical statements, further denials, a flurry of intraoffice memos to and from different levels of the insurance company's hierarchy, and finally a demand from the patient that the matter be submitted to Peer Review for a decision.