My name is Kyler Lehrbach and I am a doctoral candidate at Temple University working with Philip Kendall, PhD. We are currently looking for mental health service providers to participate in a dissertation project. 

My study is examining the decision making of mental health service providers regarding accepting health insurance. Our hope is that findings improve insurance reimbursement rates for mental health services. 

The survey is available at this link: https://redcap.link/projectaccess

The survey will take less than 20 minutes to complete, all responses will be keptconfidential and used solely for research purposes, and participants will be compensated $5 for their time.

Eligible participants are those who:

• practice under a license of LCSW/LMSW/LICSW, LMFT, LPC, LMHC, or PhD/PsyD

• work in private practice

• see at least 50% of clients out-of-network (i.e., do not accept insurance for the majority of their caseload)

• conduct 10 hours of client facing therapy per week

• see individual clients for 50% or more of their caseload

• have the ability to decide whether they accept insurance for their clinical work

If you require any further information about the study or the survey, please do not hesitate to contact me at access@temple.edu. This study had been approved by Temple University IRB (#31833). Additionally, if you would like to receive a summary of the study findings once they are available, we would be more than happy to provide that to you.