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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an attorney who specializes  in working with doctors and insurance plans to negotiate reimbursement levels. I am daily shocked at doctors, though I shouldn’t be anymore. I would say the majority of mental health providers that begin the negotiation process stop it and say they’d rather have high, private pay patients than deal with other people who need any type of insurance. With such a lack of in network providers, it’s always disheartening. And I’ll say, the reimbursement levels offered from plans are high (in my experience). The docs just claim they can get 4x that with a small (rich) subset of people. [/quote]
My former therapist used to go on about how evil insurance companies are and why she, therefore, was a saint for refusing to work with them. The message rang a bit hollow when we were sitting in her fancy home office in Chevy Chase.[/quote]

This is so true. I had a therapist as well that lauded the goals of a single payer system to create more equity. However, she was cash only. I asked what she would do if we ever had that type of a system and she just laughed and said it wouldn’t hurt her as she’d operate outside the system on a cash only basis. I honestly don’t think she got the irony of her statement. [/quote]

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