Rates and Insurance

Rates:

$185 for initial assessment appointment

$160 per standard session with a sliding scale

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I accept several local health insurance plans as an in-plan provider and qualify as an out-of-plan provider for several more. Currently, I am in-plan with:

Select Health

Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Educators Mutual Insurance (EMI) 
Optum/UHC

University of Utah Plans

WISE

Medicare part B 

ComPsych 
 

If you have another insurance company, you pay for services at the time they are rendered and we provide a form that you submit to your insurance company to seek reimbursement directly from them. It is important to verify your out-of-network benefit with your insurance company.

Please note: 
If you have a health insurance policy, it will usually provide some coverage for mental health treatment. I can help you receive the benefits to which you are entitled, however you, not your insurance company, are responsible for full payment of my fees. It is important that you find out exactly what mental health services your insurance policy covers.  

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Please check your coverage carefully by asking the following questions:

• Do I have mental health insurance benefits?

• What is my deductible and has it been met?

• How many sessions per year does my health insurance cover?

• What is the coverage amount per therapy session?

• Is approval required from my primary care physician?

• (For clients whose insurance is not listed above) What is my out-of-network mental health benefit?

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You should also be aware that most insurance companies require you to authorize me to provide them with a clinical diagnosis and with a specific plan of treatment. Sometimes I have to provide additional clinical information such as treatment summaries, or (in rare cases) copies of the entire clinical record. This information will become part of the insurance company’s records and will probably be stored electronically. Though all insurance companies claim to keep such information confidential, I have no control over what they do with it. In some cases, they may share the information with a national medical information database, and in others with your employer or with the sponsors of your HMO or health plan. I will notify you before I submit any information about you to your insurance carrier or health plan and I will require you to sign a Release of Protected Health Information form. 

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Also please note: 

Due to the complex nature of legal involvement, my fee is $150.00 per hour, or fraction thereof, for any work that is associated with you that is required of me by legal counsel and/or the civil or criminal justice systems, whether or not the work is requested of me by you or by any other party involved in legal or judicial action in which you are involved.