Hello Partyofone ~ Welcome and your post come thru clearly. I am a newbie too and it took awhile to allow the Smilies. I think you may need to go to your profile and see if you can check that you allow Smilies.
Yes, it has taken months and months of looking and trial and error finding Medicare providers and the ones that accept it actually are very inferior and poor patient standards so far. Even though the Medicare.gov website hosts pages and pages of "available psych docs and therapists", 99% of them are either out of network, no longer accepting patients or not in business anymore.
I think our aging population has become a burden to Medicare now. I am hearing from a lot of providers I interview that the reason most no longer accept Medicare is the reimbursement rate being soo low. I live in a high-cost area, so most of the providers here are now concierge (meaning they charge a monthly fee of $2,000.00 and you get easier access to them ).
I have contacted my State Federal Senator for help navigating all this, but I doubt he will be able to help me. It's worth a try.
Birdie
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Originally Posted by partyofone
Hello, Hummingbird--
I think you described your reaction very well and thoroughly. I don't think I can tell from your description of her behavior if she's ther therapist we should all avoid or whether there's some subtle technique going on here, but the most important thing is she's not meeting your needs. (She wouldn't be meeting mine either if she asked me why I wanted to be depressed.) I hope you communicate your feelings to her in more explicit detail. And, by the way, thanks for mentioning the trouble you have finding services that accept Medicaid. Interesting, isn't it? We're in some ways disadvantaged anyway by being old--and now the healthcare system disadvanatges us in relation to staying psychologically healthy.
This is my 1st post and I don't know how to send 'Hugs', but please accept them from me in this form.
Best,
Party of One
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