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Re: Therapist retired but we still are in contact.

Posted by Freudiannic on February 11, 2009, at 17:16:22

In reply to Re: Therapist retired but we still are in contact. » Freudiannic, posted by wittgensteinz on February 11, 2009, at 14:59:12

> This sounds like an enormous amount - were these costs covered by your insurance? You say he did the majority of the talking in these calls - were they still therapeutic in their nature?
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Yes, it was an enormous amount. Yes, he talked at me not to me if you know what I mean. No, my insurance did not cover these calls. I was with two insurance companies during my treatment with him and neither insurance carrier would cover phone calls.

Some of the calls were therapeutic that I paid for so I understand him wanting to get paid. As I said before I paid him almost well over $30,000 in the eight to n9ne years I saw him. I mean I was seeing him 3 to 4 hours a week so he was definitely being well compensated from my insurance carrier.

Nonetheless, I never knew when he was billing me or not. He was not consistent with even co-pays no less a bill for phone calls. I was charged $2 per voicemail I left. No joke. It really makes me feel used and pathetic.

Here is a snippet from his bill email to me:

Your question, are you out of town or just busy? is tantamount to asking me to explain myself, a line of questioning I find inappropriate. I understand you would like me to call you. I will call you. I will try to call you within the next couple of weeks. Let me ask you something--its been a long time since I heard anything about the balance you owed me. Are you aware that I have never heard about this from you without it being in response to my asking about it? We can talk about this when I call you. I will try to call you this Friday or the following Friday.

Best wishes.


My reply:

I am still baffled why you chose to bring up the bill knowing it would cause me to react and then say that you would speak to me about this Friday or next Friday. Your email reply about, Your question, are you out of town or just busy? is tantamount to asking me to explain myself, a line of questioning I find inappropriate. I understand you would like me to call you. I will call you. I will try to call you within the next couple of weeks was taken totally out of context.

The reason I said maybe you are busy or out of town was not asked to explain yourself. Rather, before you went to Mexico I had (removed for privacy) questions. You told me you would call when you got back. I said maybe you are busy or out of town bc I was NOT taking the lack of a phone call personally. I assumed you had other things to do like work or be out of town than to call me. How could you not get that?


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