AceRimmer, I'm so sorry you are dealing with this. Unfortunately companies do have protocols, and it sounds like they just want the proper documentation. Owning a business, I can tell you there are different things regarding FMLA and sick time, so my hope is that they aren't just trying to make it difficult for you, but to put the proper pay designation on it. Employers also get some different breaks for FMLA with CARES right now. So maybe that's it.

What's more worrisome to me is your therapist's refusal to assist with paperwork. That really is his job, and if he won't even bother to look at the paperwork or actually read what FMLA is, then he doesn't sound, to me, like a therapist that is going to be very useful to you anyhow. Since my disability is psychiatric in nature, I need certain annual paperwork done by my therapist. If my therapist refused to do this paperwork, it would cause me a lot of problems.

Occasionally I have had to educate my therapist on certain forms of documentation, and answer their questions about it if they were uncertain or uncomfortable. I wonder if you could provide your therapist with a website or other resource that would educate him that he CAN fill out this paperwork and it's allowable and dispel the myths he seems to have bought into about it?

It's unfortunate but a lot of healthcare providers don't actually fully understand a lot of laws that govern healthcare including HIPAA, FMLA, and all sorts of other stuff.

FIngers crossed the situation will resolve!