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No one is private practice is losing money with a full caseload that is much smaller than what Kaiser (as an example) is doing. The overhead for any treatment at a large hospital is so high that traditional psychotherapy is not going to cut the mustard. Perhaps they need to rethink the infrastructure of mental health services rather than trying to make mental health fit into the same infrastructure as other health treatments.
Bigger problem is the failure of mental health parity laws and ever declining reimbursements. It's bad enough on the outpatient side, it's a disaster on the inpatient side. If a dept is going to be cut, it's going to be IP MH.