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Fees for Services with Randi Fredricks
Individual Counseling (Child or Adult)
- 50-Minute Session* Please Call for Fee
- 80-Minute Session* Please Call for Fee
Couples and Family Counseling
- 50-Minute Session* Please Call for Fee
- 80-Minute Session* Please Call for Fee
* The first few minutes of the session is for business, such as scheduling and payment.
Phone Consultation
There is no charge if I asked you to call for a check-in or a brief question at anytime.
If we are doing an extended phone call, I will make you aware of this and the charge will be
according to the service time used according to the above rates.
Standard Office Procedures
- I return phone calls as soon as possible. This may be in a few minutes or several hours if I have a busy day.
If you leave a message and do not hear back from me the same day, you may want to leave a second message as
the first may have been lost in transmission.
- When canceling appointments, please call as opposed to emailing. Emails are unreliable and often lost in cyperspace.
Appointments not canceled 48 hours in advance are charged for at the rate scheduled.
- When you arrive for a visit at the office, please have a seat in the outer waiting room.
I will come out to meet you there at your scheduled appointment time.
- Full payment is due at the beginning of each session.
You may pay with cash or a personal check. Payments should be made to Recovery Connections.
Insurance: Caveat emptor! (Let the buyer beware)
Many people rely upon their health insurance plan to provide coverage for mental health services, and some
psychotherapists accept reimbursements. For a number of reasons, the agency I work at has chosen to operate
on a privately paid or "fee-for-service" basis. Of course, we can provide invoices
for clients who wish to file for reimbursement.
Some of the reasons why I do not work with insurance are as follows:
- Studies show that clients who pay privately for health services tend to be more active and invested in their well being,
which makes for exciting and fulfilling work for both therapist and client.
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Paying out-of-pocket gives clients
maximum protection and control over their treatment and privacy because it denies managed care providers access to your
personal records and confidential information on file.
If you are using your insurance to pay for your therapy, or any other medical reason for that matter,
your insurance company has complete access to your therapy and medical records and those records and your entire health
history are routinely posted on a national insurance database, the Medical Information Bureau. This bureau has over
750 insurance companies as members. They share with other health, life and mortgage insurers, if you sign a general
or specific release.
There
is a very real potential for this to make you ineligiable for health insurance with other companies should you
ever need to
change carriers. Health insurance providers are now routinely denying new healthy private pay individuals for
reasons they find in
this database, and those reasons are often simple things such as headaches or mild depression.
When you pay for your therapy, it ensures that the insurance
company cannot access any diagnoses or treatment records that could be used against you for any reason.
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Please remember that managed care providers dictate how your mental health care program should proceed.
It might be better if you are the only party deciding how many sessions you wish, how often you wish to schedule them, and how long you
are willing to participate in therapy. All of us are aware of the reported (and, we may assume, unreported) abuses by
managed care providers in this regard. I strongly believe that the retention of privacy and control is critically
important and empowers you to take care of yourself, your way.
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