Shifting my practice to Out-of-Network is not something I take lightly. I believe in making therapy affordable as it's a helpful tool for everyone at some point in their life. I am committed to making my services more widely accessible and affordable in a variety of ways including maintaining a specific percentage of my caseload at reduced rate fees to clients who would otherwise not be able to afford therapy, which includes seeing at least one pro bono client per week.
My primary reasons for moving to an Out-of-Network practice are as follows :
Often managed care companies restrict the client’s choice of therapist by offering only short-term / brief therapy.Such therapy meets the financial criteria of managed care companies but may fail to afford my client the opportunity to get the information / therapy that s/he wants / needs. It is my belief that this often results in my client’s quality of care being compromised.
And, this, of course, can result in the possibility of my client’s needs going unmet. Managed care companies often choose to limit what therapies are offered, can restrict what is discussed in therapy, and decide which clients can be seen and for how long.
By contracting with managed care companies, it is likely that I would be required to share my client’s deeply personal information with gatekeepers and utilization review professionals; it would mean potentially allowing literally hundreds of other to have access to my client’s personal information.
With this model of therapy practice, I will be able to provide more personalized treatment that is client-driven, not driven by the insurance company and their parameters of what 'success' looks like in therapy.
My primary reasons for moving to an Out-of-Network practice are as follows :
Often managed care companies restrict the client’s choice of therapist by offering only short-term / brief therapy.Such therapy meets the financial criteria of managed care companies but may fail to afford my client the opportunity to get the information / therapy that s/he wants / needs. It is my belief that this often results in my client’s quality of care being compromised.
And, this, of course, can result in the possibility of my client’s needs going unmet. Managed care companies often choose to limit what therapies are offered, can restrict what is discussed in therapy, and decide which clients can be seen and for how long.
By contracting with managed care companies, it is likely that I would be required to share my client’s deeply personal information with gatekeepers and utilization review professionals; it would mean potentially allowing literally hundreds of other to have access to my client’s personal information.
With this model of therapy practice, I will be able to provide more personalized treatment that is client-driven, not driven by the insurance company and their parameters of what 'success' looks like in therapy.
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