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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A private pay “full neuropsych” is rarely necessary and often a waste of money that could be better spent on therapy or childcare. We got all we needed with school educational testing and testing covered by insurance. The exception could be if there was a suspected learning disability, but even then, the answer is a focused set of tests for that and not a full battery that takes 2 days and costs $7k.

If these “full neuropsychs” that they charge so much money for came bundled with say 5-10 hours of additional support to liaise with schools, advise on IEP, or provide some home-based guidance for parents (eg setting up study habits, discipline plans) then it might be a better value proposition. But places like CAAT also want you to pay $300/hr for that. [/quote]

Clearly many of us disagree with you on the value of a full neuropsych.[/quote]

yes, this board has a clear bias towards throwing a lot of money at providers who are happy to take the money. I think it is important for families that are not made of money to understand the limits of a “full neuropsych” instead of feeling that they are doing something wrong by not paying for it. It’s rarely necessary to do and can cost as much as a full course of therapy that actually does help your kid materially.

I have brdt and have the credit card bills to prove it. [/quote]

The amount we paid for a well written report from CAAT was low compared with the amount of time and expertise it takes to write a document like that (in addition to the hours they are paid to actually do the testing).

We can debate whether it is actually necessary for any given child. Tbf we have an excellent insurance plan that reimbursed us for most of the cost, so my perspective may be different than that of someone who ate the total cost. We found the report and recommendations to be worth their weight in gold.

But this notion that providers who do write a detailed, accurate and custom report for a child are somehow being unethical or getting paid too much is a little ridiculous. [/quote]

if you didn’t pay that much for it, that’s great. Others would be paying $5k-$6k. I have really good insurance and it would only pay a small fraction of that.

I have in fact run into unethical billing practices in this space before - not sure why that is so surprising. But beyond that, yeah, I do find it unethical not to keep in mind that SN families are often stretched financially already and help them distinguish between the services that will be most impactful. keep in mind that these practices are offering something that most people can get *for free* from schools as part of the IEP by psychologists equally trained doing a lot of the same testing …. [/quote]

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