Glad you posted this video. Although I also believe that this law favors big insurance. Although partly is beneficial from balance billing. The problem with it and is not too helpful is for a person going into the hospital for an emergency procedure. Essential the consumer is still blind to oon fees anyways. As for counselors in private practice it’s just making our jobs more taxing.
I feel like I already did this informally. Patients would ask how long or how many sessions will this take with some diagnoses I have a good idea that the course of treatment is usually a certain length but sometimes the person is looking for an ongoing long term. Supportive therapists so the length of treatment is dependent on the client. I am really just putting into a document what is verbally agreed upon and what I already included in my new patient welcome email regarding fees and what to expect. So now they have one more form to sign. I feel like as often happens we are all punished because a few people didn’t do what should have done in the first place. I’m not talking about mental health but ED, ONN hospital staff. My mom had to be flight lifted 2 years ago and the helicopter was OON with Medicare so my parents received a $40k bill for the helicopter which Medicare would not pay for. Those hidden fees are just wrong and I’m glad this law is correcting this. I’m trying to not get over stressed about the FFA, just going to do my best to do the steps required of us.
