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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was private pay for gymnastics and happily paid $75/week out-of-pocket for a 45 minute session.

Now I pay $260/week for 60 minutes with 1.5 instructors, for which insurance reimburses $100.  Sadly, unsustainable.

My child will be devastated when I cancel.[/quote]

Try for liss.  Doubt you will get it, but it may be worth trying depending on the diagnosis.  You are under the new model which they are hiring licensed its and pts and charging even more than.  You can ask to switch to some of the non licensed people and it should cost half that but they are just athletic guys who enjoy what they do with no licenses.    That is an insane price for 60 minutes.  I forget how much we paid.  But, it was not nearly that much. [/quote]

I confess I don't know what LISS is, though I gather it's a MD benefit of some kind.  I live in DC.

I don't understand the pricing, even with a licensed PT.  It seems to be twice the rate of a licensed PT anywhere else.

For what it's worth, the PT (Donna) seems fantastic and also quite lovely.  I definitely feel like a great program just got much better, were it not for the price....

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LISS is grant money through the state of Maryland via the DDA to pay for "extras" for special needs kids.  It pay for things like Motion Education, therapies not covered by insurance, and many other things.

I think it is supply and demand.  They built up a nice business, realized there was a good market and need, expanded it by going the insurance route model and assumed families would be hooked into their program and continue to pay the extra costs.  It is a good program, but they have made it unaffordable and out of reach for a lot of families I know.  Several families I know have left and have no plans to return.   Our insurance will not pay for them so it wasn't even an option for us.   Either they have enough families that can pay, they will have to modify their fees or they will go under.  
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