Therapy and insurance

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I wondered if anyone has had therapy paid for by insurance before and if so, what level of detail your therapist sends to your insurance company?

I have had three initial therapy sessions that were pre-approved. I just received my letter from therapist following these sessions for next round of insurance approvals. Ive been asked to indicate whether I’m happy for them to send the letter to insurance company. After reading it, I 1000% do not approve of this going to my insurance company!

For some reason I thought it would just be high level detail, like “patient exhibits anxiety and I recommend course of 5 more sessions and exploration of XYZ medication” or something, but the letter is literally every single thing we talked about!

And absolutely something I don’t want written down at all, let alone in a PDF and on my insurance record for any approved person to view.

Wondering if this is standard or can I request a “detail light” version to be sent to insurer?

If they require this level of detail to pay out then I’ll pay for it myself (/not do therapy which is more likely option given the cost).

I’m a little horrified to be honest and keen to hear experiences!

No that’s not needed. I thought they could just send a letter to say you would benefit from X more sessions.

You normally get 10 sessions initially I thought so 3 is quite low.

My therapist would never share that sort of info. With my Bupa I call them and request more sessions (I get 20 at a time), so my therapist sends nothing.

Thanks for sharing your experiences. Even more weirded out by the letter they want to send now, it’s two pages of really specific discussion content, like alcohol consumption, details of trying weed as a teenager, specific information about my mother and grandparents, binge eating habits etc… literally everything we talked about that I had assumed would be basically between me and therapist.