I spoke with my therapist on the phone this morning. She said the number is in fact the diagnosis code but it is completely wrong. She looked up what was written on my bill and came up with the same schizophrenic bit I posted above. The psych doc's code was the one on the chart, not hers. And that wasn't what he told me at the time either, he clearly stated it is dysthymic depression that he was diagnosing. There were a few other issues with the psych doc that we talked about at my appointment last week and she got me switched to another doc in the same practice at my next visit there.

She did say the error can and will be corrected. But I'm still really concerned that now I know that's what it was, that it did get to my boss and is on my insurance files incorrectly. I'm not sure how to be certain it's corrected properly in all places. Or if I need to say something to my boss directly, he handles all the insurance stuff for the company.

Therapist was pretty shocked that it happened. She told me what her actual diagnosis of me is and that wasn't surprising. I don't usually get a statement from them, I pay my copay each time, so there's no billing involved. Fortunately, they charged me wrong the first few times. THat's how I found the error and panicked myself for the last two days. Now I'm just waiting for the director to call me and see what she has to say.

I thought going for help was going to make my life easier! Well I guess it has in that I probably wouldn't have noticed that a few months ago and would ignorantly go on being mislabeled till it bit me in the *** later.