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Quick question about HIPPAA - am I right?
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 572804" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>That makes sense about you and the therapist talking and then the receptionist not wanting to make an appointment for you. At that point it's about insurance. They have to have a diagnostic code to bill, and the diagnostic code they have is your daughter's. If it is only you in the office it's not treating her, and they have to bill that separately with you as patient and get insurance approval for you, etc... </p><p></p><p>When we used to take the kids to the therapist if we wanted to talk alone we either had to go in with the kids and if the kids said it was ok we could take part of their allotted time to talk alone with the therapist, or make a separate appointment with ourselves as the patient and either bill insurance for us, or just pay out of pocket. The issue of our talking to any therapist regarding the kids during the kid's appointment was ALWAYS deferred to the kid.</p><p></p><p>At the next therapist appointment, when they call difficult child into the room, look the therapist in the eye and say "I'd like to talk to you too. Can we do that now, or do you want to set up some time at the end of this appointment?" The therapist will ask difficult child and do what difficult child wants. We actually had a therapist who M had seen for years cut off the patient/therapist relationship with M because she felt that she needed to reveal something he said that concerned her against his wishes. So, she fired herself and told us right in front of him so he'd know what she said which was VERY vague. He did know that she was going to say it, though. We never did figure out what was going on, we had no right to know. It's probably best that we didn't because by then he was so far gone that knowing details wasn't going to help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 572804, member: 99"] That makes sense about you and the therapist talking and then the receptionist not wanting to make an appointment for you. At that point it's about insurance. They have to have a diagnostic code to bill, and the diagnostic code they have is your daughter's. If it is only you in the office it's not treating her, and they have to bill that separately with you as patient and get insurance approval for you, etc... When we used to take the kids to the therapist if we wanted to talk alone we either had to go in with the kids and if the kids said it was ok we could take part of their allotted time to talk alone with the therapist, or make a separate appointment with ourselves as the patient and either bill insurance for us, or just pay out of pocket. The issue of our talking to any therapist regarding the kids during the kid's appointment was ALWAYS deferred to the kid. At the next therapist appointment, when they call difficult child into the room, look the therapist in the eye and say "I'd like to talk to you too. Can we do that now, or do you want to set up some time at the end of this appointment?" The therapist will ask difficult child and do what difficult child wants. We actually had a therapist who M had seen for years cut off the patient/therapist relationship with M because she felt that she needed to reveal something he said that concerned her against his wishes. So, she fired herself and told us right in front of him so he'd know what she said which was VERY vague. He did know that she was going to say it, though. We never did figure out what was going on, we had no right to know. It's probably best that we didn't because by then he was so far gone that knowing details wasn't going to help. [/QUOTE]
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