Ian L. Pritchard, PhD

01/02/2022

Your Rights and Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills When you get emergency care or are treated by an out-of-network provider at an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center, you are protected from balance billing. In these cases, you shouldn’t be charged more than your plan’s copayments, coinsurance and/or deductible. What is “balance billing” (sometimes called “surprise billing”)? When you use your health insurance to see a doctor or other health care provider, you may owe certain out-of-pocket costs, like a copayment, coinsurance, or deductible....

Your Rights and Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills When you get emergency care or are treated by an out-of-network provider at an in-network

12/18/2020

Task-shifting, manualized treatment, community health workers, digital therapy—the fourth industrial revolution for mental healthcare is already here. Unsurprisingly, it’s bad for both therapists a…

04/06/2020

As we Stay Home for Nevada, all therapy, evaluation, supervision, consultation, and coaching appointments with me will continue to be conducted by telehealth through April 30, 2020. The State of Nevada has extended all emergency actions to mitigate spread of Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) until the end of April, while directing state residents to stay home. Accordingly, I will continue following the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and ethical best practices of the American Psychological Association for everyone's safety during the ongoing pandemic. [ 369 more words ]

As we Stay Home for Nevada, all therapy, evaluation, supervision, consultation, and coaching appointments will continue to be conducted by telehealth through April 30, 2020.

03/26/2020

Gottmans in WapPo: Practice the Stress Reducing Conversation in Building Rituals of Connection for Turning Toward during the COVID-19 outbreak.

With coronavirus shutting off our normal escape valves, how do we release the lid and turn off the heat before our relationship with our partner has all but melted down?

03/20/2020

A place where words matter

03/18/2020

What Leadership? Whose Authority? A Grex Group Relations Conference @ UCLA, May 15-17, 2020

Grex Presents a Group Relations Conference at UCLA May 15-17, 2020University of California, Los Angeles Director: Suma Jacob, MD, PhD Registration is open for this three-day conference at UCLA! Visit grouprelationsucla.org for details.

03/18/2020

In light of the extraordinary situation that we are facing with the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, I have decided that it is in everyone’s best interest to temporarily move all client appointments to an online (telehealth) format through April 6, 2020. I have based this decision on our national state of emergency, disturbing growth curve models of the outbreaks, varied orders to cease non-essential business operations in Reno, rapidly changing exposure precaution guidelines, advice from my colleagues across the nation, increasing travel uncertainty, and my own pre-existing health circumstance. [ 467 more words ]

In the best interest of everyone, all client appointments have been moved to an online (telehealth) format through April 6, 2020.

06/25/2019

The Politics of Our Lives

If you have any interest in leadership, organizational life, or understanding how you relate to and take up authority in groups. I encourage you to