How fees work
The answers to what nearly everyone asks before a first visit.
Insurance we work with
Forge Psychiatry is out of network with every insurance plan, so you pay for each visit yourself. We do not bill Medicare or Medicaid. If you want a prescriber who bills your plan, we will gladly give you the names of colleagues.
Out of network with insurance plans
No Medicare or Medicaid
If you pay yourself
You pay at the end of each visit by card, including HSA and FSA cards. Your fee is set by the length of the visit: 75 minutes for the ADHD evaluation, 20 for a follow-up and 40 for a longer follow-up. We send the fee in writing before the evaluation. We ask for 24 hours' notice to change an appointment. There is no contract and no payment in advance.
Receipts for reimbursement
Each month we give you an itemized receipt (a superbill) with the dates and kind of visit, to send to your plan, which may reimburse part of out-of-network care. It carries a diagnosis code your insurer can see. Your plan decides whether it pays anything; ask it before you start.
An estimate in advance
If you pay without insurance, you have the right to receive a good faith estimate of what your care will cost before you start. We send one in writing before the evaluation. If the final bill is $400 or more above the estimate, you can dispute it. The estimate is not a contract.
Checking your benefits
We do not check benefits, because we do not bill your plan. If you want to know whether your plan reimburses, call it before the evaluation and ask about out-of-network mental health visits.
What the first visit includes
The ADHD evaluation is the first visit, and there is no separate consultation before it. It runs 75 minutes: a structured interview, your history and rating scales, then a written summary of what we found and what we recommend.
Would you like a written estimate?
Write to us and we send it before the evaluation.