Fees Massachusetts: 2025

Payment for services

Point Allerton Therapy accepts FSA, HSA, credit and debit cards. Superbills are provided on request. All clients are self-pay. 

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Point Allerton is considering accepting insurance. This is in progress. 

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FSA and / or HSA: These accounts are offered by large corporations, sometimes as a regular benefit and sometimes in conjunction with high deductible insurance plans. They are designed to offset out-of-pocket health care costs, including mental health. You are welcome to use these funds to pay for therapy sessions just as you would a regular credit or debit card.

If you are not familiar with superbills, more information is below. 

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By not working with insurance companies, Point Allerton gives you more decision power over your care.   This choice gives us the freedom to provide you with much more control over your treatment, including the number of sessions you can have, and treatment options that can be offered. It denies insurance companies access to a great deal of information about you. Many people are concerned about the amount of information that is available about them online in these times.

At the same time, many people have no financial choice but to allow the trade off with insurance.

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Taking insurance means significantly higher costs for the business, which as a small business, we have to pass on. Insurance provides lower costs to consumers and clients while at the same time making it more expensive to provide services. This catch 22 is one that many therapy practices have to calculate in setting rates.

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Point Allerton Therapy chooses to provide long lasting effective creative solutions to people's emotional pain instead of being forced into insurance company approved "medical model", pathologizing and diagnosis based treatment. Many people are now so accustomed to the sub par treatment options that insurance companies will cover, that it can be hard to recognize that the things providers can provide are so limited, which makes it hard to challenge it, and hard to know that there are better alternatives when they are available.

Private pay and self pay therapy keeps costs for the business lower, provides freedom of treatment options that are tailored to your needs, keeps your information secure, allows you to have control over the number of sessions provided, and makes it possible to have therapy and treatment not be controlled by people who have no experience or training to know what treatment options exist. 

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Superbills

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Clients are charged directly for all services at time of service and are responsible for paying all fees directly to Point Allerton Therapy.

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Point Allerton Therapy is out-of-network; there are no in network providers with any insurance company. The practice does not collect or store any insurance information, does not “convenience bill”, does not guarantee any reimbursement by an insurance policy, and does not complete any paperwork or phone calls for clients who seek out of network reimbursements. Providing the information to your insurance company and getting reimbursed are between you and the insurance company.

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Relationship / couples therapy

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Relationship or couples therapy is not considered a medically necessary service, so insurance somtimes does not cover it especially depending on your plan. Almost all of my clients have been successful in accessing insurance reimbursement for services, and it is not guaranteed.​

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