FAQ’s

Yes! I am in-network with Aetna, United Healthcare, and Oscar (for Florida residents only).

If you have insurance that is not in-network, I can provide you with a billing invoice that you can turn into your insurance company to be reimbursed. Reimbursement rates vary based on your personal insurance plan and not all insurance plans have out-of-network benefits. You will want to check into this with your insurance company!

While talking with friends or loved ones is important and generally can feel very therapeutic- therapy with a professional and a conversation with a loved one is very different.

Therapy is a time-limited treatment that ends when your goals are successfully reached. Therapy is more than talking with someone who cares for you. Through professional training in both my graduate program, continuing education and experience, I am able to listen to understand, provide tools to identify thinking or behaviors that may be getting in your way, have non-judgmental and objective discussions with you and I am legally and ethically obligated to keep what is brought up in our session between the two of us. There are clear boundaries in the therapeutic relationship. This means that our time together will always be about you and moving you forward, closer to your goals.

If you are having recurring thoughts of no longer wanting to be alive, having thoughts of self-harm or have made a plan to end your life; I advise you to call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 or 911.

Your safety is my primary concern and my practice is not set up in a way where I can respond right away to crises. Appointments with me are made in advance and I am not available for full-sessions outside of these regularly scheduled visits. If you are experiencing a crisis, please use one of the numbers listed above. If you are experiencing a different type of crisis, such as a life event that is intense and you are in need of support; you can email me and I will send you a link to book an appointment with me.

Your Rights & Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills (OMB Control Number: 0938-1401)

When you get emergency care or get treated by an out-of-network provider at an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center, you are protected from surprise billing or balance billing.

What is “balance billing” (sometimes called “surprise billing”)?

When you see a doctor or other health care provider, you may owe certain out-of-pocket costs, such as a copayment, coinsurance, and/or a deductible. You may have other costs or have to pay the entire bill if you see a provider or visit a health care facility that isn’t in your health plan’s network.

“Out-of-network” describes providers and facilities that haven’t signed a contract with your health plan. Out-of-network providers may be permitted to bill you for the difference between what your plan agreed to pay and the full amount charged for a service. This is called “balance billing.” This amount is likely more than in-network costs for the same service and might not count toward your annual out-of-pocket limit.

“Surprise billing” is an unexpected balance bill. This can happen when you can’t control who is involved in your care - like when you have an emergency or when you schedule a visit at an in-network facility but are unexpectedly treated by an out-of-network provider.

You are protected from balance billing for:

Emergency services

If you have an emergency medical condition and get emergency services from an out-of-network provider or facility, the most the provider or facility may bill you is your plan’s in-network cost-sharing amount (such as copayments and coinsurance). You can’t be balance billed for these emergency services. This includes services you may get after you’re in stable condition, unless you give written consent and give up your protections not to be balanced billed for these post-stabilization services.

Certain services at an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center

When you get services from an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center, certain providers there may be out-of-network. In these cases, the most those providers may bill you is your plan’s in-network cost-sharing amount. This applies to emergency medicine, anesthesia, pathology, radiology, laboratory, neonatology, assistant surgeon, hospitalist, or intensivist services. These providers can’t balance bill you and may not ask you to give up your protections not to be balance billed.

If you get other services at these in-network facilities, out-of-network providers can’t balance bill you unless you give written consent and give up your protections.

You’re never required to give up your protection from balance billing. You also aren’t required to get care out-of-network. You can choose a provider or facility in your plan’s network.

When balance billing isn’t allowed, you also have the following protections:

• You are only responsible for paying your share of the cost (like the copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles that you would pay if the provider or facility was in-network). Your health plan will pay out-of-network providers and facilities directly.

• Your health plan generally must:

• Cover emergency services without requiring you to get approval for services in advance (prior authorization).

• Cover emergency services by out-of-network providers.

• Base what you owe the provider or facility (cost-sharing) on what it would pay an in-network provider or facility and show that amount in your explanation of benefits.

• Count any amount you pay for emergency services or out-of-network services toward your deductible and out-of-pocket limit.

If you believe you’ve been wrongly billed, you may contact: The Office of Georgia's Secretary of State at (478) 207-2440

Visit https://www.cms.gov/files/document/model-disclosure-notice-patient-protections-against-surprise-billing-providers-facilities-health.pdf for more information about your rights under Federal law.

Visit https://rules.sos.ga.gov/GAC/ for more information about your rights under 120-2-106-.07