Insurance
Insurance, verified before visit one.
Coverage questions decide whether people start care, so this practice answers them before the first appointment instead of after it. Send a photo of your insurance card with your intake forms, and we run the eligibility check, confirm whether your specific plan is in network here, and tell you your exact copay before you commit to anything. For most patients, that copay lands between $0 and $40 a visit.
One practice, two ways in: therapy and medication care at psych.us is the full practice, and medication management only at PsychMed Care is the dedicated prescribing door. Locations, insurance, fees and booking for both live on this site.
How verification works
Three steps, all before your first visit.
Send the card
A photo of the front and back of your insurance card goes in with your IntakeQ forms. That is all we need to start. You do not have to call your insurer first, sit on hold with a benefits line, or decode a plan booklet on your own.
We run the check
We confirm that your coverage is active, whether this practice is in network for your exact plan, whether a deductible applies to psychiatry visits, and what your copay will be. If your plan needs anything else from you first, we find that out now rather than later.
You hear the number
Before the first visit, you know what the intake will cost you and what follow-ups will cost you. If the answer is not one you can work with, you learn it while there is still time to decide, and the published self-pay rates give you a second, known option.
One verification covers both doors of the practice. The check is run once, on your plan, and the answer holds whether you choose therapy and medication care or medication management only, because the billing runs through the same practice either way.
Plans we work with
Pick your plan for the details.
Aetna
In network for telehealth psychiatry across the states this practice serves, with your exact copay confirmed before the first visit.
Cigna and Evernorth
Cigna plans, including behavioral health coverage routed through Evernorth, verified against your specific plan before you start.
UnitedHealthcare and Optum
UnitedHealthcare coverage, with behavioral health benefits that usually run through Optum, checked plan by plan.
Blue Cross Blue Shield
The Blues are a family of separate state plans. We check your specific one, not just the logo on the card.
Medicare billing
Medicare is accepted in Arizona, California, Colorado, Texas and Utah, with eligibility confirmed before your first visit.
Oscar, Oxford, Carelon and more
Oscar, Oxford, Carelon and Providence, plus regional plans, and out-of-network checks for anything not listed anywhere.
Medicare and Medicaid
Public coverage, two short lists.
Medicare patients are welcomed in five states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Texas and Utah. Medicaid patients are welcomed in Oregon and Wyoming. Both are verified before the first visit, exactly like commercial coverage, so a public plan gets the same certainty about cost as any other.
The billing side of Medicare lives on the Medicare page linked above. The care side, what Medicare psychiatry looks like state by state, lives at the full practice: Medicare care in five states.
Timing
When to send your card, and when we check again.
The check runs when your intake forms arrive, before the first visit is booked, and it usually needs nothing else from you. If the forms arrive without the card, we ask for it and hold the booking until the check is done, because an intake scheduled before verification is how surprise bills are born.
Verification is not a one-time event, either. If your employer changes plans, your marketplace coverage renews into a new design, or you pick up a second policy, tell the practice and the check runs again against the new coverage. The goal is boring on purpose: the number you were quoted is the number that shows up, visit after visit.
Not listed
If your plan is not named here.
A plan missing from this page is not a closed door. For plans the practice is not contracted with, we check whether your policy carries out-of-network benefits and what they would mean for your cost, and we tell you what we find before you book. Plenty of patients start that way.
And if insurance is not part of the picture at all, the self-pay rates are published and fixed: $350 for the 60-minute intake and $250 for each 30-minute follow-up. The full breakdown is on the self-pay fees page, and the practice FAQ answers the scheduling and billing questions that come up most.
Start with the card. We handle the check.
New patient intakes run 60 minutes. Follow-ups run 30. Booking happens on IntakeQ, and every plan is verified before the first visit.