Out-of-Network Insurance Reimbursement

I am currently a private-pay, out-of-network provider.

While I don't accept insurance directly, your insurance plan may have out-of-network benefits, which means that they will reimburse you for a portion of our session cost.

I have partnered with Thrizer to handle the out-of-network process automatically for you. With Thrizer, you will only have to pay your co-insurance for our sessions, instead of paying my full fee and waiting for reimbursements. This can save you on average 70% upfront on our sessions. During our intake process, I can help you verify if you have out-of-network benefits and how much your co-insurance would be.

A Good Faith Estimate

By law, all health care providers must give you a good faith estimate of expected charges if you request one or schedule services at least three (3) business days in advance.

I’ll do this once sessions begin, but feel free in advance to review what to expect when you receive it.

A final point about insurance

From an abolitionist perspective, private insurance is an unethical practice. It is enforced by the state to limit our ability to receive the care we desperately need from one another. Similarly, taking part in this industry means that I am required to provide your “diagnosis” to an insurer, which can be deeply pathologizing.

I am foundationally against the institution of privatized health care. It is not “insurance,” it is extortion.

I establish my professional rates deliberately in order to support my family. Healing in this brutal society means that we’re all just coping financially until our healthcare services are freely accessible, to everyone. You deserve care freely given, and practitioners like me also deserve the resources to thrive.

This is why I’ve elected to go through Thrizer at the moment: to ensure that my services are as accessible as I’m able to make them. I do this alongside advocating for unlimited social healthcare services for you, and for everyone.

Abolition (ending this system) and harm reduction (helping us both work together), in this case, go hand-in-hand.