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private diagnosis - costing and legitimacy

NAS89471
11 months ago
  • I am finding work harder and harder without accomodations (mandatory 'return to office ' mandates of X days a week keep changing and stressing me out), and I am in the fortunate place that I am paid well enough to afford a private diagnosis (as I hear the waiting list for NHS is 5 years?!). There are a lot of companies online, it seems the price can vary from £700-£3000...

Obviously the cheapest option would be appealing, but I would also want to make sure any diagnosis is "official" in the eyes of my employer and I guess the NHS. I do have private medical insurance with work,but assume it wouldn't cover something I was potentially born with.

Ideally would want somewhere 1k or under. I would prefer my parents not have to attend in person as they live far from me.

Does anyone have any recommendations please? I am 33F if that matters.

Parents
  • 11 months ago

    I did this a few months ago with one of the companies listed on the NAS website. The practitioners also work for the NHS and listed all the criteria and assessment types they perform. I had done a lot of research and they seemed very thorough.

    They did an initial assessment that was basically a two hour interview and charged £250 for that. The purpose of this was to save me the cost of a full assessment if was readily apparent I wasn’t autistic.

    After that was completed I proceeded to the full assessment over three days at a further cost of £1850, so a total cost of £2100.

    I am confident from my research that they were very thorough and it was also further comfort that they were listed on the NAS website.

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  • 11 months ago

    I did this a few months ago with one of the companies listed on the NAS website. The practitioners also work for the NHS and listed all the criteria and assessment types they perform. I had done a lot of research and they seemed very thorough.

    They did an initial assessment that was basically a two hour interview and charged £250 for that. The purpose of this was to save me the cost of a full assessment if was readily apparent I wasn’t autistic.

    After that was completed I proceeded to the full assessment over three days at a further cost of £1850, so a total cost of £2100.

    I am confident from my research that they were very thorough and it was also further comfort that they were listed on the NAS website.

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