Legal statements

You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical care will cost

Under the law, health care providers need to give patients who don’t have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the bill for medical items and services.

You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency items or services. This includes related costs like medical tests, prescription drugs, equipment, and hospital fees.

Make sure your health care provider gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing at least 1 business day before your medical service or item. You can also ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule an item or service.

If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill.

Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate.

For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises

In December 2020, the Federal Government enacted the No Surprises Act. Governor Wolf subsequently signed an Executive Order to coordinate implementation of this federal law in Pennsylvania. As part of the No Surprises Act, health care providers are required by law to give a good faith estimates of costs for services they offer when scheduling care or when the patient requests an estimate.

It is important to note that psychological therapy and treatment is specific to the individual and the issues involved. It is impossible to set a specific time for the duration of treatment needed in any particular case. Duration of treatment varies widely depending on the diagnosis and the patients needs. Decisions about treatment duration usually evolve as part of an ongoing dialog between therapist and patient and may change given the patients ongoing needs and situation.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while using our services, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our site, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our services that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Our website uses these “cookies” to collect information and to improve our site. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our site.

Services Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons: facilitate our services; provide the services on our behalf; perform services; or assist in analyzing how services are utilized.

We want to inform our visitors that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

Our site may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our site does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

IPA operates the website ipapsych.com, which provides evidence-based psychological services for children and teens, families, and adults.

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information if anyone decided to use our services.

If you choose to use our services, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The personal information that we collect are used for providing and improving our services. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this privacy policy.

We are a group of independent mental health professionals operating under the name of Integrative Psychological Associates. This group shares certain expenses and administrative functions. While the members share a name and office space, we are completely independent in providing you with clinical services and individually responsible for those services. Professional records are separately maintained and no member of the group can have access to them without your specific, written permission.