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juniperaza t1_j6asvjb wrote

Reply to comment by my_metrocard in NYC promises telehealth for all high school students struggling with mental health by greenhousecrtv

Really? I feel like therapists are more likely to take insurance. I think the real problem lies with psychiatrists. Very, very few of them take insurance and if they do, they’re fully booked for months out. And if you have shit insurance, you end up needing to go through public hospitals and their psychiatrists are also booked up.

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my_metrocard t1_j6b4aag wrote

Therapists don’t take insurance because the contracted rates are so low. Even if the session is only 40-50 minutes, insurance companies make the therapists fight to continue treatment by requiring written treatment plans, denying authorization, making the therapists call them to appeal…a lot of uncompensated administrative time. I blame the insurance companies.

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burnbabyburnburrrn t1_j6axo6x wrote

Yeah been paying 350 a session (that’s the reduced rate) 6x a year to my psychiatrist for over a decade. It’s infuriating, but what I have to do to get my ADHD drugs. I wish it wasn’t so normalized for them to not accept insurance - you’re medical doctors! There aren’t like, spinal surgeons out there who only do out of pocket. My doc is great and deserves money, but I’m very poor and realizing I’ve paid him 21000 is upsetting.

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