At this time, I do not accept any insurance plans. However, I do provide “superbills” which are essentially itemized receipts that you can present to your insurance provider after the appointment for potential reimbursement (with the exception being Medicare which does not provide reimbursement for such).

In short, you shouldn’t pay out-of-pocket for services that you can get covered by your insurance somewhere else, which is why the services that I provide are different. By removing insurance companies from the equation, we can instead focus on what actually matters - finding solutions to your problems and fixing them. Insurance companies often try to dictate which providers you can see, how long appointments can be, how frequently you can have appointments, which diagnoses they will actually reimburse for, and even what medications somebody can be prescribed. In this clinic, there will be no limit on any of these things* - we will do what we have to do in order to obtain an accurate diagnosis and create an effective treatment plan, and we will not be beholden to your insurance company to decide which mental health issues warrant which type or degree of treatment.

*(The asterisk above is because your insurance can technically still approve or deny certain medication requests (usually when brand-name) regardless of whether you pay for your appointment out-of-pocket or with insurance; however, I will always do my best to sufficiently justify whatever treatments I think are warranted to your insurance provider so as to maximize the chances of everything outside of our appointments being covered by them). 

In addition to the above, there are many other reasons why seeing a non-insurance-based mental health provider can be worth it. For instance, paying out-of-pocket means that you get to decide who you want to see for your care, and thus you can seek out experts in the field or individual providers who seem like they would be a good fit for you. Further, there is often a very long waitlist to see a psychiatrist through your insurance, whereas non-insurance providers are often able to see people more quickly while also being more flexible with appointments.

One must also think about privacy - - if you are using insurance to obtain mental healthcare, your psychiatrist is obligated to report diagnoses and treatment plans (etc) to your insurance company who technically has the right to request treatment notes and other private documentation in order to make decisions regarding whether or not certain care is necessary (and thus whether or not they are willing to continue paying for it), among other things. However, when you seek care outside of the insurance system, everything is kept strictly confidential, with the lone exception being if paperwork was required to submit to your insurance provider specifically for them to determine whether or not they are willing to cover certain medications (as is also the case for when you receive care through your insurance). In summary, paying out-of-pocket for psychiatric care has the very real potential to increase not only your freedom and flexibility, but also to increase the quality of care that you receive and the privacy that comes with it.

A superbill is essentially an itemized receipt for out-of-network services that I will provide to you after our appointment that you can then submit to your insurance provider for potential reimbursement. It can serve as a sort of “backdoor” to getting these services covered by your insurance, though reimbursement is ultimately at the insurance provider’s discretion.

There are plenty of options out there for people who are looking for a psychiatric provider, but not all are created equal in terms of quality. While I can not guarantee that we will be a perfect fit to work together, nor can/would I ever guarantee a specific “result” from your treatment given how complicated the human psyche is and how many different variables are always in play (etc), what I can guarantee is that I have a deep and broad base of psychiatric knowledge that you are unlikely to find in many other places (as evidenced by my credentials listed on the “About” page), and that I will do everything that I can to try to help you. I have had a series of world-class teachers and mentors over the years and I am a voracious reader of psychiatric literature past and present, American and international. This is not just an ordinary job to me; it is a vocation.