Posted by susan C on August 2, 2001, at 11:21:18
In reply to Cost of psychiatry, posted by Collete on August 2, 2001, at 10:18:31
Hi, Maybe this does belong in psycho social babble? My experience for the first assessment was an hour and a half plus lab work (he found I was very anemic, a very thorough guy, I had been giving blood too vigorously) was similar cost. 30 minute med check is $80. I go every 1-3 months. It was more frequent at the beginning. So my question to you is will you be regularly seeing him for more than 1/2 hour? I did go to a public state University specialty clinic with 'world renound specialist' and spent an hour with pdoc as he drilled me with questions from forms. They charged the public $400 for the visit, turns out our provider was charged $120. That is a big difference. I hope, that the doc spent a little time before and after that hour looking at my answers and he did dictate a letter of diagnosis and recommended treatment to my pdoc. We didn't really agree with him, but it was a documentation of my illness, I don't know how docs figure what they charge, I would assume it is like any business, it is based on what the market will bear, what their experience is, how busy their practice is.
> I hope this question isn't inappropriate. I am new here. My insurance pays nothing for mental health so consequently my initial visit with a psych cost me $182. I was told that followup visits will cost the same. I can afford these rates so asking him for some sort of break wouldn't fly, but still the cost of seeing him AND paying for the meds is pretty high. Does his rate seem inline with the cost of seeing a psychiatrist? Thank you, Collette
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