The Preferred Provider's Handbook: Building A Successful Private Therapy Practice In The Managed Care Marketplace

Included in this highly practical book are tips on how to: -- Get accepted on the preferred psychotherapist provider lists of managed care organizations-- Generate patient referrals once you are accepted on a panel of preferred providers-- Retain active referral status over the long term-- Zero in on the higher quality networks that produce higher income and have minimal legal risk-- Break into the closed provider lists -- one of the most difficult but most important tasks confronting therapists"A wake-up call for the office-based private psychotherapist who wants to know how (or whether) to compete for patient referrals from the private, managed mental health care sector". -- American Journal of PsychiatryWilliam L. Poynter is the author of 'The Preferred Provider's Handbook: Building A Successful Private Therapy Practice In The Managed Care Marketplace', published 1994 under ISBN 9780876307083 and ISBN 087630708X.