Description
Offering reduced-fee services can be an important way to increase accessibility while still creating sustainable boundaries around your practice.
The Sliding Scale Fee Calculator for Therapists helps take some of the guesswork out of determining reduced rates. Enter your standard fee, minimum reduced rate, household size, and annual household income to calculate a suggested session fee based on your established sliding-scale parameters.
The calculator also provides documentation notes that can help you maintain a consistent process across clients.
What’s included:
- Full session rate input
- Minimum reduced-rate input
- Household size tracking
- Annual household income tracking
- Federal Poverty Level reference
- FPL percentage calculation
- FPL income multiple calculation
- Automatically calculated suggested fee
- Documentation notes
- Multiple client entries
- Adjustable income thresholds
- Built-in instructions
Using a consistent framework can make sliding-scale decisions feel less subjective and can help you establish clearer policies around reduced-fee services.
Perfect for:
- Private practice therapists
- Clinicians offering sliding-scale services
- New practice owners creating fee policies
- Therapists wanting a consistent reduced-rate process
- Practices focused on accessibility and sustainability
This resource is designed to help you establish your own sliding-scale framework. You can adjust the inputs to reflect your practice’s policies, rates, and financial boundaries.
Digital product: Excel spreadsheet download. No physical product will be shipped.
This resource is for organizational and practice-planning purposes and is not legal, tax, financial, or ethical advice. Review your sliding-scale policies with appropriate professional guidance to ensure they comply with applicable requirements.
