Below is my testimony I submitted to www.speaknowforkids.org.
Children's Mental Health Law:
To Congress:
Please modify the inequitable system on how mental health clinicians are reimbursed for their time in counseling children in outpatient clinics. Currently, mental health clinicians with masters degree and above and with/out licensure are underpaid; not reimbursed for clients on Medicaid; and have to endure unfair and stringent productivity requirements to be paid on a salary as opposed to fee for service. In Massachusetts, the new Children's Mental Health Law under the Rosie D vs. Romney suit, does address the mental health needs of children with severe emotional disturbances but fails to put improve the quality of services for children who need outpatient services that don't have serious emotional disturbances.
Respectfully submitted:
Robbin Miller, LMHC
Citizen-Therapist
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