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Today is the day Blue Cross Blue Shield cuts my reimbursement rates by 11%. Yesterday I got another “FYI” (yes, that is the official name *smirk*) from Blue Cross telling me that they will no longer reimburse out of network providers directly and “are working to encourage our members to use in-network providers to contain [...]

Health care is changing at lighting speed. If you don’t know this, or worse, don’t accept it you’re doomed. No. Really. It’s change or close shop. Whether you like it or not, health care reform is going to change the way we practice from now on. Many physicians are choosing to work for large group [...]

A few weeks ago I did a webinar with Corey Quinn of MyTheraistMatch.com called, Ethical and Effective Social Media Marketing for Therapists Some of you asked for a link to the recording, so I’m sharing it here. Please let me know your thoughts on the webinar when you are done watching it. http://www.mytherapistmatch.com/webinars/socialmediafortherapists.aspx

I just went over to the health care blog, KevinMD.com and am now in a bad mood. Why? Because when I read the comments over there I get slimed by negative comments and cynicism.  Check out the comments on this post (written by yours truly). Quick summary, I wrote a piece about my bad experience [...]

This is a question I ponder daily: Can mental health treatment be  moved online or into a virtual space (via phone, video chat, second life) effectively and ethically? Then the questions really start rushing in.  I ask: What does virtual mental health treatment look like? How does it work? How do people benefit? What pieces [...]

Just a quick follow up to my Different Doesn’t Mean Wrong post….. I just realized that if the Pew Foundation is right and 62% of Americans are searching for health care information online…..those of us who are online building websites/blogs and communicating with clients via online technology are, in fact, part of the majority of [...]

I just got off the phone with a client who tells me some of  her colleagues are vehemently against her becoming innovative in how she structures her private practice business.  Their reasoning, “It’s not the way we do things.” Hm….if Freud stuck with the established way of doing things, he would have continued working in  [...]

I am in the middle of reading Seth Godin’s Linchpin and it is rocking my world.  [As an aside I will be talking about the book and how to apply it to small businesses in my new Small Business Book Club. You may want to check it out. It's free.] Linchpin is the “it” book [...]

Who wants you to be successful?  At first, this seems like a silly question with an obvious answer. You may think, “Of course *I* want to be successful. And my spouse/partner, my Mom/Dad want me to be successful, too.” Then, the smarty pants among you are going to say, “What do you mean, ‘successful’? How [...]

Hey, have you seen the most recent Newsweek article by Sharon Begley?  It seems antidepressants don’t work. Apparently, 82% of the improvement people feel is placebo effect.  If you are a mental health professional, you know this, whether or not we want to admit it. Let’s face facts, folks. When it comes to curing mental [...]