Payment

Akula Therapy is private pay (out of network provider). 

The cost is $165 a session. You may use any form of payment, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), or your provider may reimburse you (please check with them, a suberbill can be provided and will need to have a diagnosis on it). If cost is a financial barrier for you, there are limited sliding scale spots with the support of the көмек fund(prioritised for BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ folks). 

Benefits of private pay: your information stays private because it’s not submitted to your insurance, you don’t need a diagnosis that could negatively impact your life/opportunities, there is no time/session limit, some insurance plans have high deductibles and may require people to pay a session fee that could be as much or higher than private pay. 

Insurance: If private pay isn’t possible, I am also contracted to work with Forward Bound Counseling (https://www.forwardboundcounseling.com/) and am in network with many major insurances. If you choose to use insurance, you will be a client for Forward Bound, NOT Akula Therapy and they are NOT interchangeable. This will require an official DSM-5 diagnosis and may limit amount of sessions long term.

I am currently in network with:

  • Health Partners

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield

  • Cigna

  • Ucare

  • Optum

  • UMR

  • United Health

  • Medica

  • Medicaid

  • SCHA 

  • Primewest (virtual only)

How to check coverage + if a provider is in network:

There are so many different variations of therapy plans, therapists don’t have the ability to look up coverage for you — that’s private information.

  • Call your insurance to see if behavioral health is covered (codes: 90837 60 min session, 90834 45 min session, 90853 group therapy)

  • ask if you have a copay, deductible, and/or if there are any limitations on sessions

  • Therapists have an NPI (National Provider Identifier) number, you can use the number to double check that they are in network with your specific plan.
    My NPI: 1114736519

The United States is the only “developed” country that does not have universal healthcare..these are my feelings on that:

Visual description: Me sending off two middle fingers to the healthcare systems -and to the many other oppressive societal systems/constructs we live in-