About Me
Greetings! I am a clinical psychologist working in private practice with children, teens, adults, and families.
My specialization is in clinical child psychology, which allows me to serve not only children and teens, but also adults, whose life complications are often strongly influenced by experiences in childhood.
Because of my concern for patient privacy I’ve terminated all contracts with health insurance companies. Payment is made at the time of service, and my receipt allows you to receive direct reimbursement from your insurance company.
Because I’ve also formally opted out of Medicare, I’m legally able to enter into private self-pay contracts with Medicare subscribers.
I am considered “out-of-network” for all health insurance companies. Please check with your insurer to learn about your out-of-network benefits.
WHY THIRD-PARTY FREE?
Because that’s the only way for Americans to receive the standard of mental health care we once enjoyed — private and individualized sessions with a seasoned, independent, and nonpartisan therapist, using an agreed-upon treatment plan free of outsider fingerprints.
In 2010 efforts to reduce costs, the Federal government* aimed to drastically curb the use of personal psychotherapy, especially as delivered by small practices. Mental health care was instead to be distributed in an “inch-deep, mile-wide” fashion to Americans at hospitals and other large medical systems, with advice and handouts about sleep, exercise, nutrition, and other care habits, to address physical health.
“It’s not going to be our world,” psychologist Robert Woody predicted in 2014. “It’s going to be a medical world.”
The idea was to shift the provider’s focus from meeting the mental health needs of the individual to the needs of the community he/she lived in, a concept called “population management.”
Omnia Pro Aegroto!
DANA A BEEZLEY-SMITH PH D
Clinical Psychologist
PHONE | 330 899 9944
3570 Executive Dr St 208
Green OH 44685-8712
Forms & NOTICES
Private therapists like me were advised to shutter our doors and become hospital employees.
If you ask your insurance company for a therapy referral, you’ll now be directed to a large entity using electronic health records, mid-level professionals, and briefer, less frequent sessions. Insurance companies now dictate your session experience, as their corporate bureaucrats assume the role of the doctor.
You’ll also likely wait weeks for your first appointment.
I was shocked to discover in 2017 how many third parties were researching and sharing your mental health records across the country. I opted not to cooperate with the national data-sharing process and limits to patients’ freedom of choice that “in-network” insurance membership now requires.
ACA and Mental Health Care. US Health
What is Population Management? NYS Psychological Association, 2014
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