I strongly oppose residents/provisionally licensed clinicians from being able to bill for themselves and receive direct payment for services.  For me this implies they can own their own business and work for themselves.  In my experience as both a internship and residency supervisor, the provisionally licensed clinician simply is not ready for all of these responsibilities developmentally.  My experience of supervisees show the residency as necessary to further establish independent clinical skills and perhaps begin to observe other professional and business practices.  Perhaps there needs to be better knowledge, awareness, and application of the counselor developmental models in our supervision processes to help clinicians understand the purposes of the residency.