My beloved therapist recently made the decision to stop taking health insurance and to move fully to a self-pay system
It brought up a lot for me because accessibility is a major focus for me, especially in my position in the classroom. Self-pay
But I aslo know Katie and I know that she would have been very thorughtful about the decision and that she wouldnt’ tkae that kind of shift lightly. So we talked about.
As you might imagine, the insurance system that is supposed to pay therapists is broken. On top of the low rate that they are reimbursement, based on the scheduled determined by private health insurance companies, the payments sometimes didn’t come. The therapists had to track individual payments for long periods of time to ensure that they were paid, and then sometimes the payments were never even filled. In order to keeping accepting insurance