Psychologists want to charge $200-$250/hr, but insurance only reimburses $120-$160/hr. You might think these are high prices, but chargeable hours isn't hours worked for psychologists, since they have to do notes for every meeting, manage the business, appointments, etc, which reduces their total take home to something below $200k/yr, which is below a typical bigtech Eng II with only a couple years of experience, potentially not even going to college if they are clever and self motivated enough. While a psychologist has gone to school for 10 years and paid for it.
It's gaps like that that lead to the entire in/out network split.
It's gaps like that that lead to the entire in/out network split.