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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Many of the psychiatrists I know in private practice don't deal with insurance or managed care at all. Cash-only. If you want to bill your insurance, you do it on your own.
To take insurance, you have to pay someone to take care of that process, and that's at least 30k out of your pocket right there.
Managed care only works in the 15min med check model, which as I have said before, has a place. But not everyone wants to do that (both patients and MDs).
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The problem is that your clients have to be finanancially sound. Only so many people can be supported that way.
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Tobias: You know, Lindsay, as a therapist, I have advised a number of couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains emotionally committed, but free to explore extra-marital encounters.
Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?
Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...but it might work for us.
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