Dr. Rae Sandler Simon, Psy.D, LLC
3773 Cherry Creek N. Dr., Suite 735
Denver, CO 80209
p 303.552.0472 | f 303.322.2292 | drsimon@livenlovewell.com
3773 Cherry Creek N. Dr., Suite 735
Denver, CO 80209
p 303.552.0472 | f 303.322.2292 | drsimon@livenlovewell.com
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Ptarmigan Place at Cherry Creek
3773 Cherry Creek North Drive
EAST TOWER - Suite 735
Denver, CO 80209
303-552-0472
My office is located in the heart of Cherry Creek. It is just west of Colorado Boulevard, and just east of Cherry Creek Mall. There is plenty of free visitor parking, a DazBog Coffee, a cafe in the building, and on-site security.
A view inside my office suite:
Waiting Room View
My Office View
My Office
Driving Directions:
From I-25 South
Exit Colorado Boulevard North
Take a left onto Virginia, which turns into Cherry Creek North Drive
Take a right into the Ptarmigan Place at Cherry Creek
Driving Directions:
From Downtown Denver
Take Speer towards Cherry Creek Mall
Continue on Speer past Cherry Creek Mall (on Right)
Speer turns into 1st Avenue
1st Avenue turns into South Steele Street while veering Right
South Steele Street turns into Cherry Creek North Drive
(take a right at the light here versus going straight onto Alameda)
Take a left into Ptarmigan Place at Cherry Creek
Parking Directions:
Continue to the East Visitor Parking Lot
Park in any 3 hour visitor parking spot
Enter the building in the main lobby or the East Entrance (next to Dazbog)
Veer right to the elevators if entering through main lobby
Suite 735 is on the 7th Floor of the EAST TOWER
Please complete all new client forms prior to our meeting.
Please make yourself at home in the waiting area.
I will be out to greet you at our scheduled appointment time.
View Larger Map
Insurance
I do not directly bill through any insurance or medical plan; however, insurance-ready statements will be provided to you detailing any direct payments you have made. These statements can be used to initiate the reimbursement process privately through your insurance company should you have the ability to do so.
My priority is your confidentiality. I do not report your mental health status to insurance companies without your permission. Therefore, my emphasis is on you being my client rather than your insurance carrier.
The first time we meet at my office will not be a regular therapy session. We will use the time to review the required paperwork; for you to ask questions and understand the therapy process; and for us to determine if we are a good fit to continue working together.
The key to a secure therapeutic relationship is goodness-of-fit. If, for any reason, either of us decide that we are not a good fit, I will refer you to an appropriate provider(s) whom I believe might be a better fit. If we do decide to continue working together we continue treatment from there. Please note that although the first session is formally the initial consultation, the first three meetings are a time for both of us to determine if our work is going to be long or short-term, and for us to finalize our decision to work together.
• Individual Adults: $130/50 minutes
• Couples: $130/50 minutes
• Phone Consults: $130/50 minutes
• Clinical and Professional Consultative Services: $130/50 minutes
• Emergency or After-Hours Consultations: $160/50 minutes
Forms of Payment & Payment Policies:
The following forms of payment are accepted: Cash, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, & Personal Check. Clients will be responsible for payment at the time services are rendered.
Cancellation Policy:
In the event you need to cancel an appointment, please give me notice within 24 hours of your scheduled appointment time. In the event that you do not provide a 24 hour notice or you do not attend your scheduled session, I do charge a full session fee.
Medication
As a Licensed Clinical Psychologist I provide clinical treatment; but I do not prescribe medication.
I do, however, have an excellent relationship with both psychiatrists and physicians throughout the Denver metro area. Together, we work as a team to provide you a holistic-based perspective of care.
What You Should Know about Managed Care and Your Treatment
Your health insurance may pay part of the costs of your treatment, but the benefits cannot be paid until a managed care organization (MCO) authorizes this (says they can be paid). The MCO has been selected by your employer, not by you or me. The MCO sets some limits on us, and you need to know what these are before we go further.
Confidentiality
If you use your health insurance to help pay for psychotherapy, you must allow me to tell the MCO about your problem and give it a psychiatric diagnosis. You must also permit me to tell the MCO about the treatment I am recommending, about your progress during treatment, and about how you are doing in many areas of your life (functions at work, in your family, and in activities of daily living). I am not paid separately for collecting, organizing, or submitting this information, and I cannot bill you for these services. All of this information will become part of the MCO’s records, and some of it will be included in your permanent medical record at the Medical Information Bureau, a national data bank that is not open to the public including you. The information will be examined when you apply for life or health insurance, and it may be considered when you apply for employment, credit or loans, a security clearance, or other things in the future. You will have to indicate that you were treated for a psychological condition and release this information, or you may not get the insurance, job, loan, or clearance.
All insurance carriers claim to keep the information they receive confidential, and there are federal laws about its release. The laws and ethics that apply to me are much stricter than the rules that apply at present to MCOs. There have been reports in the media about many significant and damaging breaches of confidentiality by MCOs. If you are concerned about who might see your records now or in the future, we should discuss this issue more fully before we start treatment and before I send the MCO any information. You should evaluate your situation carefully in regard to confidentiality. For some people and some problems, the privacy of their communications to their therapist is absolutely essential to their work on their difficulties. For others, their problems are not ones that raise much concern over confidentiality.
Treatment
The MCO will review the information I send it and then decide how much treatment I can provide to you. The MCO can refuse to pay for any of your treatment, or for any treatment by me. Or it may pay only a very small part of the treatment’s cost, and it can prevent me from charging you directly for further treatment we agree to. Finally, it can set limits on the kinds of treatments I can provide to you. These limited treatments may not be the most appropriate for you or in your long-term best interest. The MCO will approve treatment aimed at improving the specific symptoms (behaviors, feelings) that brought you into therapy, but it may not approve any further treatment. The MCO will almost always require you to see a psychiatrist for medication evaluations (and prescriptions), whether you or I think this is appropriate.
When it does authorize our treatment, the MCO is likely to limit the number of times we can meet. Your insurance policy probably has a maximum number of appointments allowed for outpatient psychotherapy (usually per year, though there may be a lifetime limit as well), but the MCO does not have to let you use all of those. It may not agree to more sessions, even if I believe those are needed to fully relieve your problems, or if I believe that undertreating your problems may prolong your distress or lead to relapses (worsening or backsliding).
If the MCO denies payment before either of us is satisfied about our progress, we may also need to consider other treatment choices, and they may not be the ones we would prefer. We can appeal the MCO’s decisions on payment and number of sessions, but we can only do so within the MCO itself. We cannot appeal to other professionals, to your employer, or through the courts. This state does not have laws regulating MCOs —that is, laws about the skills or qualifications of their staff members, about access to medical and psychological records by employers and others, or about the appeals process.
The particular MCO in charge of your mental health benefits can change during the course of your treatment. If this happens, we may have to go through the whole treatment authorization process again. It is also possible that the benefits or coverage for your treatment may change during the course of our therapy, and so your part of costs for treatment may change.
Lastly, even if we send all the forms and information to the MCO on time, there may be long delays before any decisions are made. This creates stressful uncertainty and may alter our earlier assumptions about the costs and nature of your treatment.
Our Agreement
If, after reading this and discussing it with me, you are concerned with these issues, you may have the choice of paying me directly and not using your health insurance. This will create no record outside of my files of your mental health status.
Ptarmigan Place at Cherry Creek
3773 Cherry Creek North Drive
EAST TOWER - Suite 735
Denver, CO 80209
303-552-0472
My office is located in the heart of Cherry Creek. It is just west of Colorado Boulevard, and just east of Cherry Creek Mall. There is plenty of free visitor parking, a DazBog Coffee, a cafe in the building, and on-site security.
A view inside my office suite:
Waiting Room View
My Office View
My Office
Driving Directions:
From I-25 South
Exit Colorado Boulevard North
Take a left onto Virginia, which turns into Cherry Creek North Drive
Take a right into the Ptarmigan Place at Cherry Creek
Driving Directions:
From Downtown Denver
Take Speer towards Cherry Creek Mall
Continue on Speer past Cherry Creek Mall (on Right)
Speer turns into 1st Avenue
1st Avenue turns into South Steele Street while veering Right
South Steele Street turns into Cherry Creek North Drive
(take a right at the light here versus going straight onto Alameda)
Take a left into Ptarmigan Place at Cherry Creek
Parking Directions:
Continue to the East Visitor Parking Lot
Park in any 3 hour visitor parking spot
Enter the building in the main lobby or the East Entrance (next to Dazbog)
Veer right to the elevators if entering through main lobby
Suite 735 is on the 7th Floor of the EAST TOWER
Please complete all new client forms prior to our meeting.
Please make yourself at home in the waiting area.
I will be out to greet you at our scheduled appointment time.
View Larger Map
Insurance
I do not directly bill through any insurance or medical plan; however, insurance-ready statements will be provided to you detailing any direct payments you have made. These statements can be used to initiate the reimbursement process privately through your insurance company should you have the ability to do so.
My priority is your confidentiality. I do not report your mental health status to insurance companies without your permission. Therefore, my emphasis is on you being my client rather than your insurance carrier.
The first time we meet at my office will not be a regular therapy session. We will use the time to review the required paperwork; for you to ask questions and understand the therapy process; and for us to determine if we are a good fit to continue working together.
The key to a secure therapeutic relationship is goodness-of-fit. If, for any reason, either of us decide that we are not a good fit, I will refer you to an appropriate provider(s) whom I believe might be a better fit. If we do decide to continue working together we continue treatment from there. Please note that although the first session is formally the initial consultation, the first three meetings are a time for both of us to determine if our work is going to be long or short-term, and for us to finalize our decision to work together.
• Individual Adults: $130/50 minutes
• Couples: $130/50 minutes
• Phone Consults: $130/50 minutes
• Clinical and Professional Consultative Services: $130/50 minutes
• Emergency or After-Hours Consultations: $160/50 minutes
Forms of Payment & Payment Policies:
The following forms of payment are accepted: Cash, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, & Personal Check. Clients will be responsible for payment at the time services are rendered.
Cancellation Policy:
In the event you need to cancel an appointment, please give me notice within 24 hours of your scheduled appointment time. In the event that you do not provide a 24 hour notice or you do not attend your scheduled session, I do charge a full session fee.
Medication
As a Licensed Clinical Psychologist I provide clinical treatment; but I do not prescribe medication.
I do, however, have an excellent relationship with both psychiatrists and physicians throughout the Denver metro area. Together, we work as a team to provide you a holistic-based perspective of care.
What You Should Know about Managed Care and Your Treatment
Your health insurance may pay part of the costs of your treatment, but the benefits cannot be paid until a managed care organization (MCO) authorizes this (says they can be paid). The MCO has been selected by your employer, not by you or me. The MCO sets some limits on us, and you need to know what these are before we go further.
Confidentiality
If you use your health insurance to help pay for psychotherapy, you must allow me to tell the MCO about your problem and give it a psychiatric diagnosis. You must also permit me to tell the MCO about the treatment I am recommending, about your progress during treatment, and about how you are doing in many areas of your life (functions at work, in your family, and in activities of daily living). I am not paid separately for collecting, organizing, or submitting this information, and I cannot bill you for these services. All of this information will become part of the MCO’s records, and some of it will be included in your permanent medical record at the Medical Information Bureau, a national data bank that is not open to the public including you. The information will be examined when you apply for life or health insurance, and it may be considered when you apply for employment, credit or loans, a security clearance, or other things in the future. You will have to indicate that you were treated for a psychological condition and release this information, or you may not get the insurance, job, loan, or clearance.
All insurance carriers claim to keep the information they receive confidential, and there are federal laws about its release. The laws and ethics that apply to me are much stricter than the rules that apply at present to MCOs. There have been reports in the media about many significant and damaging breaches of confidentiality by MCOs. If you are concerned about who might see your records now or in the future, we should discuss this issue more fully before we start treatment and before I send the MCO any information. You should evaluate your situation carefully in regard to confidentiality. For some people and some problems, the privacy of their communications to their therapist is absolutely essential to their work on their difficulties. For others, their problems are not ones that raise much concern over confidentiality.
Treatment
The MCO will review the information I send it and then decide how much treatment I can provide to you. The MCO can refuse to pay for any of your treatment, or for any treatment by me. Or it may pay only a very small part of the treatment’s cost, and it can prevent me from charging you directly for further treatment we agree to. Finally, it can set limits on the kinds of treatments I can provide to you. These limited treatments may not be the most appropriate for you or in your long-term best interest. The MCO will approve treatment aimed at improving the specific symptoms (behaviors, feelings) that brought you into therapy, but it may not approve any further treatment. The MCO will almost always require you to see a psychiatrist for medication evaluations (and prescriptions), whether you or I think this is appropriate.
When it does authorize our treatment, the MCO is likely to limit the number of times we can meet. Your insurance policy probably has a maximum number of appointments allowed for outpatient psychotherapy (usually per year, though there may be a lifetime limit as well), but the MCO does not have to let you use all of those. It may not agree to more sessions, even if I believe those are needed to fully relieve your problems, or if I believe that undertreating your problems may prolong your distress or lead to relapses (worsening or backsliding).
If the MCO denies payment before either of us is satisfied about our progress, we may also need to consider other treatment choices, and they may not be the ones we would prefer. We can appeal the MCO’s decisions on payment and number of sessions, but we can only do so within the MCO itself. We cannot appeal to other professionals, to your employer, or through the courts. This state does not have laws regulating MCOs —that is, laws about the skills or qualifications of their staff members, about access to medical and psychological records by employers and others, or about the appeals process.
The particular MCO in charge of your mental health benefits can change during the course of your treatment. If this happens, we may have to go through the whole treatment authorization process again. It is also possible that the benefits or coverage for your treatment may change during the course of our therapy, and so your part of costs for treatment may change.
Lastly, even if we send all the forms and information to the MCO on time, there may be long delays before any decisions are made. This creates stressful uncertainty and may alter our earlier assumptions about the costs and nature of your treatment.
Our Agreement
If, after reading this and discussing it with me, you are concerned with these issues, you may have the choice of paying me directly and not using your health insurance. This will create no record outside of my files of your mental health status.