PsySSA Congress 2005 Round Table Discussion on Fees and Tariffspsyssa国会2005圆桌讨论费与关税.pptVIP

PRESCRIBED TARIFFS AND/ OR FREE MARKET FEES FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS?Facilitators:Dr Theo H VeldsmanDr Louise Olivier SERVICE CATEGORIES CATEGORY 1: “TARIFFS” Services rendered by any registered psychologist to individuals. Responsibility for fee and contractual relationship is with individual, most often in one-on-one therapeutic relationship. Fees can be claimed from medical schemes. . CATEGORY 1: “TARIFFS”Assumptions Medical model of standardised service provided in prescribed manner to individual/ group who can claim expense back from medical scheme Relatively uninformed, non-professional person, the client, with little negotiation power who needs to be protected against possible professional abuse. Review governance structures exist within the client-professional situation: Health Professions Council and the client’s own medical aid scheme SERVICE CATEGORIES CATEGORY 2: “FEES” Services rendered by any registered psychologist to organisations (inc. companies) and/or groups. Responsibility for fee and contractual relationship is with organisation (inc. company) and/or group NEED Best practice guidelines be developed by PsySSA to protect the public for submission to HPSC E.g. contracts with clients should include information about services rendered, expected outcomes, fees, recourse/arbitration RECOMMENDATIONS BY PSYSSA Category 1 Annual tariffs as determined by Council for Medical Schemes (i.e., the National Health Reference Price List) should be used as basis to compute proposed professional ethical ceiling fees, as requested by the HPCSA Fees computed on basis of fees suggested by Medical Association of South Africa. Suggested formula (3,2 times the fees suggested by the Council for Medical Schemes as the ethical capping tariff and PsySSA suggests a 3,5 times the fee suggested by the Council for Medical Sc