The State of Massachusetts is implementing ethics reform in how it handles pensions, benefits, etc for their state employees and politicians.
What do you think of the Mental Health and Social Work professionals looking at ethics reform on how some clinicians choose to bill for services that are not honest.
For example, some clinicians will bill an insurance company an hour for an individual session when they only saw the client for 15 or 30 minutes. Their rationale is that they have to make productivity or being laid off or demoted to fee for service status. Furthermore, if an agency conducts a customer service call to their clients, their clients will vouch that they saw their clinicians for hourly appointments and not for a 30 minute or for a 15 minute appointement.
What do you think?
Robbin Miller, LMHC
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