The effects of patients' payment source on the duration of outpatient psychotherapy

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Abstract
Investigated the effects of fee payment source alone, as well as in combination with selected demographic factors (race, sex, education, and socioeconomic status), on the duration of outpatient psychotherapy, One hundred and sixty outpatients receiving treatment at aa medical center based community mental health center served as Ss. These Ss were divided into four groups: Medicaid, insurance, insurance plus self-payment, and scaled self-payment only. Univeriate results indicated that patients who paid a scaled fee ahd significantly more sessions than those whose fee was paid by Medicaid. Multivariate results, however, indicated that education and sex, which were highly correlated with fee payment source, accounted for most of the variance in tretment duration.

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