How easy? The following information is based on the 2013 “Medicare Data” (Data.CMS.gov). Can you spot the outliers? That’s right. It’s easy to see that the overwhelming majority of clinicians provided 1000 or fewer 53+ minute sessions in 2013. A few obviously break away from the pack providing 1-2,000 such sessions, fewer still between 2-3,000, …

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53+ minute psychotherapy sessions can hardly be called ‘outlier’ or ‘atypical’ session lengths, as some insurers may now be asserting. However, 53+ minute sessions are not necessarily the most commonly employed increment for treatment visits. Here’s a look at the 2013 numbers from the large Medicare population (approximately 52 million in 2013). Source:  https://data.cms.gov/. *Number of …

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