Chesapeake ADHD closing its doors?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial problems due to federal government changes makes a lot of sense. These are admittedly pricey services and between the loss of jobs and the shutdown, it’s been tough for families. It doesn’t surprise me that they had to find alternative care. And there is nothing like financial problems to tear a family apart.

It doesn’t sound like the existing business model could support the costs if clinicians are going to be paid out of the owner’s personal pocket. And it sounds like they are acknowledging their ethical responsibilities and trying to set up a means to meet them.

I almost worked there as a contractor; each practitioner sets their own fees; they earned 60 percent of what there fee was/is. Did anyone say that less people were being seen? That clients dropped off?

Providers setting their own fees must have been new, because that was not the case previously. Providers were often pressured into raising rates even when they didn't want to, discouraged from giving discounts to long-term patients who fell on hard times, and would be talked badly about if they did make the decision. It was a bully operation.

This was around 2019 pre Covid. My expertise (certified DBT) and experience meant my fees were/are high. They didn’t need to ask me to raise them any more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial problems due to federal government changes makes a lot of sense. These are admittedly pricey services and between the loss of jobs and the shutdown, it’s been tough for families. It doesn’t surprise me that they had to find alternative care. And there is nothing like financial problems to tear a family apart.

It doesn’t sound like the existing business model could support the costs if clinicians are going to be paid out of the owner’s personal pocket. And it sounds like they are acknowledging their ethical responsibilities and trying to set up a means to meet them.

I almost worked there as a contractor; each practitioner sets their own fees; they earned 60 percent of what there fee was/is. Did anyone say that less people were being seen? That clients dropped off?

Providers setting their own fees must have been new, because that was not the case previously. Providers were often pressured into raising rates even when they didn't want to, discouraged from giving discounts to long-term patients who fell on hard times, and would be talked badly about if they did make the decision. It was a bully operation.

This was around 2019 pre Covid. My expertise (certified DBT) and experience meant my fees were/are high. They didn’t need to ask me to raise them any more.

PP and my intuition told me to work for myself. And so I did successfully.