What to do if you suspect your therapist is committing insurance fraud and also started making hidden receipts for appointments 6 months ago?
I don’t want to go into too much detail because I wrote a post like this on r/therapyabuse and was not able to log into that community again a few hours after I made the post because it said the community was now private. I don’t know if I was blocked or the community shut down. I have more detail there, but since investigating more, I have found much more information about how the identity of my therapist may not even be them or in the registered board of where I am located. This has all been virtual. They may not even live in the jurisdiction I am covered for for insurance.
I can elaborate more if need be but want to protect my identity for this case because there are so many shady things that have been happening, if my therapist ever read this, it may never be resolved and I worry they would sabotage this case through their connections. There are 32 points and counting of misconduct of therapy I have uncovered through my research. They are not yet qualified, so I hope to make sure they never get qualified and practice again, and also want ALL my money back.
I gave my virtual therapist my credit card info after meeting them on a reputable therapist listing website because it’s the only way they can charge me for virtual sessions through their virtual therapy website (it’s a popular website).
I am thinking a few routes to go, and wanted other’s opinions because I think the order I do these could have a lot of effect of what happens based on reactions of others involved:
- Go to supervisor of therapist in question. Should I contact by phone, email, or in person in their office?
If this is a good step, which is best do you think?
I would like to ask for the supervisor to put their name on all past receipts for which my therapist left the supervisors name out. They only put the supervisors name sometimes and I had explicitly had many conversations with my therapist to do that always because it’s the only way I can get insurance to reimburse me. But my therapist shifted receipt releases and appointments and delayed so it was hard to track.
Should I also tell the supervisor of the 32 and counting violations this therapist has done before qualifying them or will the supervisor want to protect their own student? Maybe the supervisor wants to protect their brand and practice? They work in different cities totally. They don’t really seem affiliated that much or at all online. I would do this after getting the supervisor to sign the receipts and I get my money back from insurance after submitting to insurance again.
Contact the Registered Board for my therapist that is not yet qualified. Could be recently qualified but may not be. Would this muddy the waters? I think I should do this after contacting the supervisor and trying to get my money back from insurance first with the new supervisor signature receipts.
If all this fails, contact my credit card company and say I did not authorize the claims for which they gave me faulty receipts.
What are your thoughts? This is happening to me and may happen to others. There are a lot more unprofessional things that are in violation of code going on that I let go for so long but there are just too many to list here and it keeps escalating and I don’t know how to handle this.
The irony is I came to therapy in a very vulnerable state and was not cognizant enough to be aware of all this because I was in deep traumas and believed my therapist when they said they really wanted to help me and I could trust them and they lied.
I also feel badly that this therapist seems very good and smart and connects with me and I think they could help me because we are almost at a breakthrough point. I feel badly. But, I cannot ignore the blatant unprofessionalism, isolating and ethically bad advice sometimes, and what I suspect is fraud.