They’re a decent starting point, there are just the tip of the iceberg.
Professional mental health specialist have the training, compassion and expertise to get you through your illness, and are there to you must get answers that will benefit you, the more you know and understand about your health problem, the quicker and better your recovery should’ve been. We all know there’s a major cr inhealth care in the USA.
I am reading with interest discussions on list serves and blogs about how to better manage costs, redistribute funds and improve reimbursement rates.
Through my reading I have come two conclusions. So, many of us are aware that there is no easy answer and ) noone seems to agree on a place to start any reform. With that said, the reality is, all of those points have merit and I believe everyone must own a piece of reform.
Consumers blame doctors for making gains.
a call to your legislator or a nicely written letter to your senator isn’t planning to produce radical change.
We need planning to move mountains and reform a system very much a part of our American economy and health care culture, I’m not saying that you’d better not do those things, and I do think thatmental health professionalsneed to be a voice at the table when health care reform is discussed. We need to get down to brass tacks these problems are very macro economic. Essentially, I also have only so any hours in my day to dedicate to work, family, my health and worrying about the greater economy. That is interesting right? I for one, still need to make a perfect living while helping people live more satisfying, emotionally healthy lives.
I actually feel a responsibility to tell it as I see it, now this may sound a tad selfpreserving of me.
I can do many, lots of things to develop my practice in this moment.
Realistically I can do almost NOTHING about changing managed care in this moment. I want to ask you a question. How must you be spending your time? I have two choices, use my business thinking time to worry, complain and feel anger about the unfairness of it all, or plan to build and grow so I can offer my services to more people and makea better livingfor myself. It’s a well-known fact that the time I spend in angst over the unfair practices of managed care is time I take AWAY from thinking creatively about building my practice. If you do not have your ideal practice hereafter leave the policy development to your professional associations to whom you pay significant dues to cover such things.
If you do NOT have your ideal practice you will need to consciously determine how much energy you have to dedicate to taking on the ‘macroeconomics’ of managed care and how much time you dedicate to the ‘micro economics’ of your business and practice. So in case so, now maybe you already have an ideal practice and your have time to get managed care, my many thanks to you! To which I say. If we don’t change health care, now I can imagine a chorus of voices, we can do NOTHING to better our business! Our thinking becomes our reality. We have become conditioned to rely on managed care to fund our practices and often succumb to a learned helplessness that we can only stand by and suffer whatever policies come down from the managed care pipeline. Well, we understand things better than anyone that learned helplessness is a cognitive process.
What if you shift your thinking?
What if you don’t really have to do whatever MCOs dish out to make a living?
How would that improve your mood, your feeling of wellbeing, your ability to be presentwith your clients? What if you start to think that the skills and information you possess are needed by so many and you can share your knowledge and talents in plenty of ways, not only in the 50 minute hour paid by a third party? You should take it into account. I submit to you that as psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists and licensed mental health counselorswe must shift our thinking in this way being that our reimbursement rates WILL NOT INCREASE -EVER. Strategic, aggressive battle known to the health care industry, we shan’t regain ground, even if we wage the most comprehensive. We get stuck in this magical thinking that if only we could convince somebody of our worth they will pay us more, no medical group can expect this to happen. Use your energy wisely.
Trust me, you will get more good accomplished and benefit from less stress, more energy and good vibes surrounding you.
Anger and frustration And so it’s unproductive at best, destructive at worst, while Surely it’s easy to get stuck in helplessness.
Shift your thinking to one of a proactive private practice business builder, not a reactive, fearful, angry health care provider. Try to promote your knowledge, gifts and talents to serve as many as you can while still valuing yourself and your contributions to others. You see, visit Susan’s blog, for more information. Looking for more information on building your ideal private practice and developing multiple streams of income?