U.S. Healthcare Plans Merit Pay System for Psychotherapists
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U.S. Healthcare plans to implement a merit pay system for psychotherapists that will use client evaluations to establish payment rates. Were going to create standards and measures for mental health providers and were going to measure them against each other, said Dr. Neil Schlackman, U.S. Healthcares Medical Director, in a interview in Psychotherapy Finances, Volume 16, Number 11. Then were going to pay them based on how they stack up. A quality assurance . . .