Comments on: Paying for Your Trauma Healthcare Team https://cptsdfoundation.org/2021/07/26/paying-for-your-trauma-healthcare-team/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Sun, 14 Apr 2024 08:51:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anthony Mignone https://cptsdfoundation.org/2021/07/26/paying-for-your-trauma-healthcare-team/#comment-25015 Sun, 14 Apr 2024 08:51:44 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=237716#comment-25015 Iam 73 and have had a disability since 2006 for panic attacks and was diagnosed with critical Ptsd several years ago. I would like to know how I can get more trauma help for these conditions especially since being diagnosed with a fib 3 years ago. Thanks Anthony Mignone

]]> By: Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH https://cptsdfoundation.org/2021/07/26/paying-for-your-trauma-healthcare-team/#comment-13797 Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:35:01 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=237716#comment-13797 “When you consider how much pain complex trauma causes in your life,” and generally how a good treatment team – that you can trust – as described here, is so difficult to put together, it is time to have righteous anger at how screwed up health care is in our dysfunctional country. (1) Medical services are still built around the out-moded “fee for service” piecework model which inherently is a barrier to teamwork. (2) Medical insurance is built around paying the doctor, the hospital and their tools – minimal attention is paid to teams, especially as are required for CPTSD. This may limit your ability to get appropriate treatment or require you to pay cash for it. (3) Medical insurance is designed to minimize expenses (Thus mental health parity still does not exist.) and maximize profit (so charges are mysterious and some needed resources are just not paid for). (4) The traditional “medical model” is one major reason that physicians are so neglectful and ignorant about issues pertaining to trauma and abuse: these conditions are not best managed by the doc him/herself; they need a team; no one will pay for the team; and the solution is not a simple pill or two.

Yes, take time to find the team you need. Community non-profits and community health centers are a good place to start as they often find ways to support these resources. Also take time to direct energy and righteous anger to our disastrous public management of medical services and add your support to the fight for Medicare for All.

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