How fees work

Flint is out of network with insurance plans. Many plans do not pay for testing done to answer a school question, and a plan that covers testing for a medical question sets its own rules. Ask your plan before you book, and ask us anything.

The fee covers the whole evaluation: the parent interview, the testing visits, scoring, the report and the feedback visit. What sets it is your child's questions and age, because a focused evaluation takes fewer visits than a full one. A limited number of reduced-fee evaluations are held each season, so ask when you write. Your fee is given in writing before you start, and a health savings or flexible spending card works where your plan allows it.

On request we give you an itemized receipt (a superbill) that you can send to your plan to ask for reimbursement. It carries a diagnosis code if the report gives one, and your plan sees it. Your plan decides what it pays; reimbursement is not guaranteed.

If you pay without insurance, you have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate of the cost of your care before you start. We give you one in writing. If a bill is $400 or more above the estimate, you can dispute it. The estimate is not a contract.

If you want to ask your plan about reimbursement, we tell you which codes to ask about before you book. Dr. Paschal does not call your plan for you, and nothing is billed to it.

A parent interview of about an hour, without your child. It covers your child's history and your questions, and it ends with a plan for testing and the written estimate.