Posted by Dinah on November 17, 2006, at 11:08:11
In reply to Re: got my first bill from newT today » muffled, posted by Lindenblüte on November 15, 2006, at 17:50:05
The code is enough for insurance purposes. No one I've seen has put more than the code.
She might not do her own billing... My therapist has me pay at each session, but I know his insurance billing is done by someone who does that sort of thing.
At any rate, it's good that you brought it to her attention.
I always looove to know my diagnoses, and religiously look up each one and put the results on at least one receipt along with the code. :)
And I'll agree that it doesn't really mean anything. My pdoc used to put down different diagnoses depending on what was most prominent at any given time, but I'm pretty sure some of them were technically inaccurate. They just need to put down something for insurance purposes. They're usually quite careful only to use nonstigmatizing ones for insurance purposes.
My therapist hasn't needed to put down diagnosis codes yet. I guess the ones from my pdoc establish the purpose of therapy. But we once got in a huge multiweek argument over it. The one he thought was most appropriate I adamantly didn't want. I proposed others that were by his own admission completely accurate, but that he didn't think were as directly related to therapy. He was holding the moral high ground that he had to be completely truthful. I was holding that being truthful was good enough. He finally consulted with others, and decided it was enough to be correct. That he didn't have to bare my soul for insurance purposes. That if my pdoc diagnosed me with something, he could too, as long as he agreed with it. But he was reluctant. I guess he was afraid "correct" but not total honesty wasn't enough to justify the number of years in therapy that I've spent. :)
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