[JoeS21]

I see 3 for completely different issues.

T1. $50 an hour. A reduced rate or sliding scale for my low income.
T2. $200 an hour. He's the only one in his specialty in this area.
T3. $10 after public insurance.

[NowhereUSA]

I have a $25 co-pay with my insurance.

[Polibeth]

I pay $0 out of pocket. I am really, really fortunate.

[stopdog]

There was a recent thread and poll on this. If you do a search it should come up.

[JoeS21]

Originally Posted by stopdog

There was a recent thread and poll on this. If you do a search it should come up.

It didn't come up. What was the title? Maybe I picked the wrong words to search. I could have done it wrong since I'm new to this website.

[Leah123]

http://forums.psychcentral.com/psych...does-feel.html

not nearly as
much as she is worth

[Hobbit House]

you're supposed to PAY your therapist??

[Lauliza]

I pay a $15 co-pay and insurance pays the rest.

[IndestructibleGirl]

$85 an hour these days. Less than half her full fee, but it is as much as I can comfortably afford.

Don't know ... Don't Care ... Insurance plan covers 100%.

Wasn't this way early on, though, and I struggled like hell to piecemeal it together, even having one therapist kick me to the curb while I was still in crisis because insurance I had at that time ran out and she refused to do sliding scale.

I feel for peeps who are still in that boat ... It ain't right!

[Two89w]

$130 an hour........worth every cent....She is a star.

[Jdog123]

She charges $125, insurance allows $78, and I pay a $15 copay. I wouldn't mind paying more as I think that insurance should allow the full $125 - they have a one-size fits all approach, which means that someone who just earned his/her PhD gets the same amount as someone who has been in the profession for 30 years (mine has been practicing almost 25 years).

[kororain]

Either $14 or $18 depending on session length. For some reason, longer sessions are $14. Bizarre, but whatever.

If I had to pay real money, I'm pretty sure I would have quit after 2 or 3 sessions. No, scratch that, I probably never would have gone.

[precaryous]

I'm irritated by the way many insurance companies "dismiss" mental health care.

[freefallin]

To be fair, insurance companies tend to pay every type of provider less than what he or she charges upfront. The last time I went to a doctor, he tried to bill my insurance over $400. Doctor's visits are usually billed at less, but I guess he charged that much because he ran a bunch of different tests on me because my symptoms were troubling. Insurance gave him $200 of that. I am not sure what my insurance gives mental health providers. I only knew about the $400 bill because my dad called me and was like, "I'm looking at my insurance statement, and what the heck did you go to a doctor for that he charged $400?!" As a side note, I hate that my dad can see every provider I see since it's his insurance. I don't really want him to know if I'm seeing a psychologist or how often I see a gynecologist.

[musinglizzy]

T's sessions are $150 per 50 minutes. I pay a $15 copay per visit. She's worth MORE than her weight in gold...

[mitziez]

I'm paying $90 an hour, out of pocket. No insurance. But blessed to have such a great therapist!

[Two89w]

Originally Posted by Two89w

$130 an hour........worth every cent....She is a star.

$130 is for the psychologist, the psychiatrist I see gets $300 for 30 minutes.

[stopdog]

Too much.

[someone321]

300$ per 90 min session. Here there is no insurance which would cover something as "silly" as psychotherapy, so I pay everything out of pocket.

£20 a session 2xwkly

[Amandasmom]

My T doesn't take insurance. She charges $170/60 min. I pay her in full and then submit to my insurance company. My insurance pays 80%. So technically I pay $34/session.

[loophole]

20 dollar copay

[junkDNA]

my t is saying he will work with me on a sliding scale. he asked me what i can afford. his normal rate is $110 an hour. but he knows i am poor and cannot pay that. i am having a hard time trying to tell him a number bc i dont want it to be too low and i dont want him to think i think hes not worth the money. i find it awkward talking about the money.