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Study finds unequal reimbursement rates in CT’s mental healthcare
By Eileen Weber
Late last year, the Office of Health Strategy (OHS), outlined payment parity issues with Connecticut’s mental healthcare, noting Medicaid reimbursement rates are much lower than commercial insurance rates. As a result, providers are typically underpaid, and unsurprisingly, fewer will accept that plan. OHS, working in conjunction with the Department of Children and Families, Mental Health and Addiction Services, and Social Services, published a report detailing the findings of a study done to assess the factors impacting the accessibility of behavioral… Read more »
Leading Stories
Study finds unequal reimbursement rates in CT’s mental healthcare
Advice given for treating immigrant population
Mental health disorders on the rise in pregnant, post-partum women
Campaign aims to de-stigmatize mental health issues among youth
A new champion in the world of trauma treatment
Report: Majority of mass violence not linked to mental health
Vermont survey: Student mental health is ‘not good’
RI agrees to consent decree for children with behavioral health disabilities
Medicare covers FDA approved mental health digital therapeutics
‘Intensive parenting’ beliefs negatively impact mothers’ mental health
What steps can therapists take when treating all genders?
Research looks at internalized racism, suicidal ideation in U.S. Asians
Maine to be freed from court oversight
Tax, record keeping advice offered by strategist
Practical Practice
Preventing unplanned therapy termination
By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D
If only therapy would end neatly when the client reaches the desired goals! It is not always easy for the client or the therapist to determine when and how to end therapy. In a best-case scenario, treatment concludes on a positive note and the client leaves secure in the knowledge that they can return in the future if needed. Over time, most seasoned therapists experience a variety of unplanned terminations. Proactive planning can reduce the risk of unplanned termination. Provide… Read more »
Tips for success in sub-leasing office space
By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D
Sub-leasing office space is an affordable way for therapists to provide in person services, while keeping overhead low. Despite the success of telehealth, many clients still prefer to have the option of face-to-face therapy. Given the financial commitment of a multi-year office lease, there are also significant benefits for primary lease holders to sublet space. Practitioners can enjoy collegial support, shared expenses, and cross-referral of clients. However, as is the case with college dormitory roommates, the relationship can create a… Read more »
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Psychotherapy Business & Marketing
Disadvantages to telehealth as a business model
By Liz Varney, LICSW
In last month’s article, “Benefits of telehealth as a business model,” I shared the cost advantages to using telehealth to conduct psychotherapy instead of meeting in an office. I mentioned that it is important to include in your assessment of business “costs” how any business decision may tax your energy, time, work-life balance, and morale. While telehealth is more cost-effective than investing in an office space, it is not the answer for every business owner. Telehealth has some significant drawbacks… Read more »
The benefit of telehealth as a business model
By Liz Varney, LICSW
The key to success for any business is to keep revenue high and overhead costs low. For new business owners, the uncertainty of unexpected costs may feel daunting. In fact, the first feedback I received from a colleague who heard I was starting a business was, “I heard new businesses don’t make money in the first year.” Luckily for me, I had already done my due diligence and had created a spreadsheet all my potential costs along with my potential… Read more »
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Interview of the Month
Q&A: Machine learning, mathematical modeling used as tools to predict suicide ideation
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Modern psychology may be about to experience a sea change. While the practice has certainly evolved over the past 100 years, the introduction of machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence that uses large data sets to look at human behavior, may vastly alter the way mental illness is understood and treated. At Yale University, Shirley Wang, Ph.D., who joined the psychology department in July as an assistant professor, is using machine learning and mathematical modeling to attempt to predict… Read more »
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In Person with Alan Bodnar, Ph.D.
Still hoping for the world we want
It was two in the morning when a chartered bus carrying 30 idealistic teenagers drove up to a hangar at New York’s Kennedy airport where a propeller-driven Iceland Airlines plane bound for Brussels was waiting just a short walk across the tarmac. Bathed in the glow of the airport lights, the plane looked like a shiny toy made real by some trick of the same fate that had brought me into this group bound for eight weeks in Europe. We… Read more »
Remembering Jimmy Carter
There are worlds within worlds. Galaxies fill the cosmos. Stars fill the galaxies and planets spin around the stars. The earth, what we call our world, is just one of them, and on its surface, eight billion people construct eight billion worlds. The numbers are astounding, but even the humblest of these worlds is rich beyond imagining, and when death takes someone from our world, we lose the riches of theirs. Occasionally someone comes along who changes our world for… Read more »