Confidentiality and sessions
To protect your privacy, third-party insurance is NOT ACCEPTED. No record of your treatment or diagnosis is uploaded into any computer systems or databases.
- Counseling sessions typically last for 60 minutes, which is 10 to 15 minutes longer than the 45 - 50 minute sessions covered by most insurance companies.
- Fees are: $70.00 for a 60 minute session and $100.00 for a 90 minute session.
- When EMDR processing is conducted, sessions may be longer -- usually between 120 - 150 minutes.
- This increased session length allows you to resolve your problems faster, in fewer sessions and at a lower total cost.
- The fee for services varies based on length of session (over 60 minutes).
- Most counseling issues, even those involving trauma, are resolved in ten to fifteen sessions or less.
- The fee for services is due at the beginning of each appointment. If payment cannot be made at that time, your appointment will be rescheduled.
- Payment may be made by cash, check, or credit card.
- It is important to keep your appointments or reschedule at 24 hours beforehand. If you miss an appointment or reschedule less than 24 hours in advance, there will be a $30 charge the second time and thereafter.
Insurance and Confidentiality
o provide clients with the highest level of privacy protection and confidentiality, COMPASS for Counseling DOES NOT accept health insurance for payment of services.
Be aware that when insurance companies pay a claim, they collect detailed information about your symptoms, diagnosis, level of functioning, history, and treatment progress -- and all of that becomes part of a comprehensive computerized record of your personal health. However, you are welcome to file a claim with your insurance company if your plan covers out-of-network mental health services.
Your health records may be accessed for a variety of purposes by others, including insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, marketers, employers and the government.
In fact, individual private health information is offered for sale on the internet.
Be aware that when insurance companies pay a claim, they collect detailed information about your symptoms, diagnosis, level of functioning, history, and treatment progress -- and all of that becomes part of a comprehensive computerized record of your personal health. However, you are welcome to file a claim with your insurance company if your plan covers out-of-network mental health services.
Your health records may be accessed for a variety of purposes by others, including insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, marketers, employers and the government.
In fact, individual private health information is offered for sale on the internet.
Military service members are even more vulnerable to a breach of health records privacy. Their medical records are readily obtainable through a variety of avenues and likely to be considered as part of security clearance applications and promotions.