 Third-party access, insurers and manage here is an important topic which we are looking into right now. When clients decided to submit a claim for mental health benefits to an insurance company, they may not realize that their information is going to be accessible to those company managers and their related staff members. This is very important to inform that what kind of information is being asked by the insurance company from the clients. They may be asking about the diagnosis. They may be inquiring about the type of the service which is being offered by the mental health professional. They may be looking into the dates the service has been took place. They may be looking into the dates from which date the service has been taken, whether it has been taken for assessment or professional consultation. Duration of treatment, etc. So these are the very prime information which of course the insurance company would be interested in knowing when they are going to give the insurance certificate to any of the client. So we understand that whenever we go to an insurance company with a person who has mental health concerns and is already learning a treatment, then we have to give the third-party disclosure of our information to an insurance company. In some circumstances, insurers or companies decided to manage mental health benefits may have authorization to take more detailed information i.e. the basic information which we have just talked about can be authorized by their protocol. So you have to give them the complete case file which includes a client's current symptom status i.e. if he is going through a bipolar disorder, personality problem, schizophrenia, or schizoid type of personality so that sensitive information will be in that file and it will have to be shared with the company. Details of a treatment plan which may include that the patient is on benzodiazepine we are giving a mood stabilizer for a longer period we are giving medications for which side effects can occur this information needs to be shared with the third party and then detail of a treatment plan and including all other sensitive material if someone is having scissor or effects, details and information related to behavioral manifestations and issues all these things are part of that file and we are bound to give that insurance company a client will sign an agreement or contract Keeper regulations address many of these concerns now we have certain guidelines which provide us information or which provides us a transcript that what we are going to share in those cases and what we cannot share even in certain cases it leaves us some information on how a mental health practitioner does not disclose more than the level of information because when we talk about the third parties the direct contract between the mental health professional therapist and the client is beyond that contract so the rules and regulations are definitely different the insurance companies may not exercise the same cautious and the responsibility as the individual practitioner when we sign a contract with a client that the mental health professional will not disclose the secret information these obligations are not applied on the third parties because for them it is a professional nature and they may not be able to meet so many ethical concerns they may be unintentional but there are the chances of labs of security and confidentiality in certain cases where third parties are included in such kind of setup a therapist should inform his clients about the issue of disclosure to insurance companies in the following manner these guidelines provide us an information on how we can tell a client in advance that if you take the insurance company in a loop then you need to take care of the security concerns he should inform clients who have coverage like the insurance coverage if you choose to use your coverage I shall have to provide the company with the information that is psychotherapy, consultation, diagnosis or evaluation so these are the four main steps which describes completely that all your information will go to the third party the company is supposed to provide you with a copy of your privacy policy the privacy policy of the company is bound to give the privacy policy to your client although I have no control over the information once it leaves this office so the therapist is informing the client that your diagnosis, evaluation, assessment and treatment I will provide the insurance company with the information that you want to give and then I will provide the policies of how to keep your data safe you can share it with them and keep it in your record but we can't claim that these things will be so safe and secure after leaving the office this is kind of an information which is being provided to the client as a caution that if you want to keep your information very sensitive or secure then probably seeking a coverage at this stage may not be a very good idea if you are very much pick and very much choosy about the information which is the part of your personal life so this can be done in a way that your sensitive information can be disclosed you should check with company providing the coverage of mental health service or you may certainly choose to pay for the services out of the pocket to avoid the use of insurance altogether so this is another suggestion that if you feel that this kind of coverage that is not going to keep your data safe then you should either try not to choose it or for insurance companies you should take out some different rules whose package or coverage is being provided by mental health professionals rather than seeking a third party from an open market so these are some of the ways which are very important to be discussed and in this light what are the consequences of taking mental health coverage so that you can choose better in the light of that information