Posted by alexandra_k on October 25, 2004, at 23:09:55
In reply to Insurance for psychotherapy?, posted by mandinka on October 24, 2004, at 1:32:28
Golly gee, as a future claimant on health insurance I am very interested in entitlements and have read the above thread with much interest.
Best I can figure is I will have a $10 surcharge on visits and a once off payment of $200 for hospitilisations (mental health ones).
I have heard a little about some clinicians being slightly, well, 'creative' with diagnoses in these days of managed health care. I mean, your garden variety neurotic should surely meet criteria for generalised anxiety, and then there are a variety of depressions, maybe a phobia or two... (I am being slightly tongue in cheek).
Seriously, though I can't believe how competant psychotherapy is fairly much a luxury for the rich. But then it is hard to objectively measure just how much they are saving at the end of the day...
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