costs of treatment Archives - Gateway Psychiatric

CPT Codes and Billing Changes 2021

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 01:09:20 +0000

In January of 2021 the AMA changed the way that physicians must choose the appropriate “CPT” or billing codes for outpatient visits. The changes simplify the process and also make it clear that we have been “undercoding” for psychiatric outpatient visits at Gateway Psychiatric for quite a while. The reason for this is that the previous system for choosing billing ...

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Cost of Sending Medical Records from Gateway Psychiatric

Peter Forster — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 20:29:36 +0000

It is our policy to provide you and other health care providers ready access to necessary medical information. Fortunately, it is easy for us to create a summary of your care that includes our initial assessment, your diagnoses, and a complete record of any medication we may have prescribed. Unfortunately, if you want a complete copy of your record, due ...

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Pharmacy Issues

Peter Forster — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 19:01:33 +0000

Yesterday was a typical day with regard to pharmacy issues. Four of my patients received incorrect information from their pharmacy (Walgreens and CVS seem to be the most common ones) and asked me to call their pharmacy to solve a problem that the pharmacy claimed was my fault, in each case I had to sit on hold for 10 to ...

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Invisible Work for New Patient Consultations

Peter Forster — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 21:19:08 +0000

New patient consultations at Gateway are expensive, in large part because of the hidden or invisible work that takes place as part of the consultation process. The table below contrasts the visible work, which is contained in the two sessions with clinicians, to the hidden work done by clinical and nonclinical staff in order to make those two in person ...

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Medication Cost Savings – Update 2017

Peter Forster — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 14:55:22 +0000

Last year the New York Times reviewed two websites that offered significant medication cost savings, for those without adequate insurance and, even for those with good insurance who are getting expensive medications. Since then we have had a lot more experience working with patients to help reduce medication costs and we can definitely say that these sites can help reduce ...

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Integrated Care

Peter Forster — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:26:13 +0000

We have a passion for providing the most effective treatment at Gateway and that passion is illustrated by the efforts that we make to ensure that we deliver integrated care. Integrated care is a very simple idea. In fact it is probably something that you expect your treatment providers are already delivering. It means that the different providers who are ...

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We Are Not “In Network” Providers

Peter Forster — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:46:50 +0000

Gateway Psychiatric Services is not an “in network” provider of care. Many of the patients we see get reimbursement for their care here, but this depends on the specific insurance plan and how it handles out-of-network claims. The most generous plans seem to be provided by larger “tech” companies which often have very generous out-of-network coverage. It is important to ...

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Prescription Savings

Peter Forster — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:54:14 +0000

We have just updated the “links” page on this site with information about prescription medication savings and costs based on online research and an online discussion on the Psychopharmacology listserve. Pharmacist Stephen Saklad summarized information about local pharmacies – “Many of the Pharmacy Benefits Managers that are used by the insurers forbid the pharmacy to charge the lowest price, but ...

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“I am looking for a doctor who can treat me with Ketamine infusions for treatment resistant depression.”

Peter Forster — Tue, 03 May 2016 14:53:45 +0000

I was inspired to write this blog post by the third patient in three days to contact me about Ketamine infusions. She wanted to know if I could provide her with Ketamine infusions for her treatment resistant depression. Ketamine infusions are one of the treatments for depression that we provide access to for our patients. Among the other treatments are ...

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Lowering Medication Costs – Update

Peter Forster — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:47:24 +0000

The New York Times recently reviewed two websites that offered to substantially reduce the cost of psychiatric medications for those without adequate insurance coverage. We’ve updated the section of this website that provides links to information about lowering the costs of medications and that mentions the option of purchasing medications from Canada as well as information about these two sites. ...

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