There are therapists in the area who will give you a mental health diagnosis and charge your insurance. This diagnosis will be a permanent part of your medical record. If your employer pays for your insurance, they have access to the equivalent of a receipt and may know you went to an individual psychotherapy session. Additionally, insurance has the right to audit the details of your chart. You gave it to them when you signed the consent form to bill them. Some insurance companies will even claim ownership of your medical records, including those from your therapist. Explanation of benefits will be mailed to the primary insured (parents or spouse), which may lead to uncomfortable questions.
For example, if your co-pay is $30 a week and you spend the normal eighteen months in therapy, your total cost will be almost two thousand dollars and many hours out of your schedule. Hidden costs like childcare, time away from work, and stigma add up. With my evidence based system, most patients find relief within five to ten visits.
15 Minute Free ConsultJim Croce, a hopeless romantic from the nostalgic past wrote a song about saving time in a bottle. He felt time was the one thing that seemed to slip from his grasp, keeping him from the relationships that were dear to him. Harry Chapin echoed these sentiments in his song about his son, who grew up without him and as a result is not there for his own son. The song paints a picture of father, son and grandson missing out on the relationships that are most important in life.Maybe our relationships compete with quality of life for the value found in time. If you are in pain, more time is more pain. Why not start your healing journey today. Time is the economic instrument that we have to invest in the relationships that define us. If we choose not to spend time with our friends, we have no friends. If we choose not to spend time with our family, the family structure falls apart and becomes irrelevant. Those strong family ties, or lack thereof, define us. Sometimes, strong feelings separate us from those that love us. As mentioned before, most therapy lasts twelve to eighteen months before the patient starts to see relief. Those are twelve to eighteen months of your life that are spent in sessions with all the logistics and quality of life expenses. Twelve to eighteen months for family and friends to drift away, because relationships are never stagnant. You either move closer or farther apart. Five to ten sessions with my evidence based method, and my clients find relief, and relationships are often restored. Ongoing talk therapy is often helpful. Many people choose to remain in talk therapy after completing evidence based sessions.
There are three possible privacy concerns associated with using insurance for your therapy session.
Therapists must have a digital record of your visit. Vickie keeps this record in a hippa approved database, and she is the only one with access to that record. Due to strengent insurance requirements, when therapists bill insurance they are give their patient a mental health diagnosis. If you are given a mental health diagnosis, the diagnosis becomes a part of your permanent record.
The charge is logged in your explanation of benefits EOB which is mailed to the primary owner of your insurance policy. Billing details can reach your employer, revealing a covered diagnosis and potentially pointing back to you. Every paper trail is another opportunity for someone to use your information against you at the worst possible time of your life. Insurance companies also audit the details of your medical chart, and sometimes even take ownership of your records, which includes records from your therapist. You give them permission when you sign permission for billing. They do have a responsibility to follow Hippa guidelines, but even with these guidelines in place, your data will live inside their database, inside the communcations with your family and your employer, and whoever happens to hack into their system.
