Mental Health by the Numbers
and iKare Policies
references 3-11 below included on the bottom of the page.
Appointment Policies
Our mission is to provide integrated, coordinated, and comprehensive behavioral care with custom treatment plans to enable you to achieve the best outcomes. We are one of the very few clinics in the city accepting all types of insurances and building a model providing behavioral care reimbursed by insurance. Texas is ranked 43rd in the nation for access to Behavioral Health (1). We are trying to fix it, but we cannot fix it without your help. All it takes to help change access is showing up or letting us know in advance if you are not able to make it.
We have strict policies enabling patients at Ikare to gain access to treatment plans based on robust research and the best evidence available. If you do not show up for your appointment, you are taking an appointment off the schedule for one of the thousands of patients waiting to receive access to this unique opportunity of high quality care reimbursed by insurance. The existing insurance model does not provide a reimbursement for missed appointments, if this ever changes then we will change the strict policies in place at iKare. Until that day, we will require a credit card on file and will require the cost of appointments to be billed back to patients for any no show or late reschedule.
Call 1-844-312-9422for any changes you need to make to your appointment or chat with us on the bottom right of the website!
iKare Policies
Cancellation and No Show Policy
Controlled Substances Agreement
Disability Fees and Protocol
References
http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/issues/ranking-states
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/health-innovation/news/how-missing-appointments-increases-the-risk-of-death
https://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content/SMA16-4975/SMA16-4975.pdf
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mental-health-work-stats_us_5730a6d8e4b0bc9cb0475adc
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1659
http://www.who.int/whr/2001/media_centre/press_release/en/
https://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16/doctor-news-206/just-try-getting-an-appointment-with-a-psychiatrist-692737.html
http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/data/map.aspx?ind=144
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/03/health/ketamine-suicide-depression/index.html
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/805459-overview
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918025/