Decision Point Therapy Does Not Accept Insurance for Payment: Here’s Why
I love helping people. So much so that my entire career has been built upon being a helping professional.
However, those of us in the helping professions (at least in America) aren’t able to help others well making a stable living due to severe systemic failures in our healthcare system and outright exploitation by health insurance companies.
In fact, there has been a silent protest happening for decades amongst professional therapists and counselors in the form of leaving these networks.
This 2024 report from the non-profit, ProPublica, dug deep into this issue. They did an excellent job outlining the larger systemic issues at play to illustrate why many mental health therapists are leaving health insurance networks and no longer accepting insurance for payment.
I urge you to read this if you value fair labor practices and are curious about why so many therapists are now out-of-network providers. (And why this is trending amongst medical doctors’ practices as well.)
Why I Left The Network
Health insurance is not accepted at Decision Point Therapy for a number of reasons, both logistical and ethical:
- Relationship counseling is typically NOT covered by most insurance plans.
- Insurance rules and restrictions pose a huge constraint on what happens during your therapy sessions and how long your therapy can last.
- The required reporting to health insurance companies in order for you to seek mental health therapy may pose a risk to your privacy.
- My practice would have to hire a separate insurance biller to keep up with the extensive work involved in accepting insurance including very long wait times to contact these companies (which may be by design).
- Health insurance companies in America do not pay mental health therapists appropriately for the value and costs of our services.
Although I don’t accept insurance for payment, you may still seek reimbursement for your sessions with me.
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