Hours of Operation

Monday - Thursday: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm

Individual therapy sessions 50 to 60 minutes: $130 per session.

Individual therapy sessions 80 to 90 minute sessions: $180 per session.

EMDR 3-hour intensive sessions: See pricing on the EMDR Intensive Therapy page. 

I do not accept insurance and am not considered an "in-network provider." 

I am happy to provide you with the necessary paperwork at the end of each month to submit the claim on your own for potential reimbursement, which will require an official mental health diagnosis. However, each insurance plan is different, and I cannot guarantee any reimbursement.

*I do not currently accept Medicaid clients. Per Colorado regulations, all Medicaid and Medicaid Exchange plan participants must use a Medicaid-approved or exchange-approved provider. 

Voucher/Scholarship programs accepted:

1. The Grief Center of Southwest Colorado. Low-cost and No-cost scholarships for grief therapy are available for individuals and groups. Contact Judy Austin at 970-764-7142.

*If you would like to work with me through the Grief Center, please call me first at 970-880-4676 to determine availability.

2. Second Wind Fund (youth struggling with thoughts of suicide): 12 free sessions available. https://forms.zohopublic.com/secondwindfund/form/ClientDetails/formperma/Z0_WfyqGuAo-RaKArz5kkf03nENuC6ghMCpd5zMj5pY

3. CB State of Mind. (Crested Butte residents) Mental health vouchers for up to 10 sessions. https://cbstateofmind.org/learn-more/therapy-scholarships/

4. IKON PASS scholarships through Alterra.  Available to ski patrollers, bike patrollers, and heli guides in any Ikon Pass community for up to $1,000 per individual to seek evidence-based trauma treatment. Applicants can work with their own provider or seek guidance through AMCCF to find a provider. You can apply at https://webportalapp.com/sp/login/patroller_heli and request to use me, Julie Hutson, LPC, as your provider. 

*Fee discounts are available for veterans and their families, Law enforcement, and emergency responders.

Your Rights and Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills

What is “balance billing” (sometimes called “surprise billing”)?

When you see a doctor or other health care provider, you may owe certain out-of-pocket costs, such as a copayment, coinsurance, and/or a deductible. You may have other costs or have to pay the entire bill if you see a provider or visit a health care facility that isn’t in your health plan’s network.

“Out-of-network” describes providers and facilities that haven’t signed a contract with your health plan. Out-of-network providers may be permitted to bill you for the difference between what your plan agreed to pay and the full amount charged for a service. This is called “balance billing.” This amount is likely more than in-network costs for the same service and might not count toward your annual out-of-pocket limit.

“Surprise billing” is an unexpected balance bill. This can happen when you can’t control who is involved in your care—like when you have an emergency or when you schedule a visit at an in-network facility but are unexpectedly treated by an out-of-network provider.

You are protected from balance billing for:

Emergency services

If you have an emergency medical condition and get emergency services from an out-of-network provider or facility, the most the provider or facility may bill you is your plan’s in-network cost-

sharing amount (such as copayments and coinsurance). You can’t be balance billed for these emergency services. This includes services you may get after you’re in stable condition unless you give written consent and give up your protections not to be balanced billed for this post-stabilization services.

Certain services at an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center

When you get services from an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center, certain providers there may be out-of-network. In these cases, the most those providers may bill you is your plan’s in-network cost-sharing amount. This applies to emergency medicine, anesthesia, pathology, radiology, laboratory, neonatology, assistant surgeon, hospitalist, or intensivist services. These providers can’t balance bill you and may not ask you to give up your protections not to be balance billed.

If you get other services at these in-network facilities, out-of-network providers can’t balance bill you, unless you give written consent and give up your protections. You’re never required to give up your protections from balance billing. You also aren’t required to get care out-of-network. You can choose a provider or facility in your plan’s network.

When balance billing isn’t allowed, you also have the following protections:

• You are only responsible for paying your share of the cost (like the copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles that you would pay if the provider or facility was in-network). Your health plan will pay out-of-network providers and facilities directly.

• Your health plan generally must:

o Cover emergency services without requiring you to get approval for services in advance (prior authorization).

o Cover emergency services by out-of-network providers.

o Base what you owe the provider or facility (cost-sharing) on what it would pay an in-network provider or facility and show that amount in your explanation of benefits.

o Count any amount you pay for emergency services or out-of-network services toward your deductible and out-of-pocket limit.

If you believe you’ve been wrongly billed, please contact your insurance company at the number on

your ID card, or the Division of Insurance at 303-894-7490, 1-800-930-3745, or

DORA_Insurance@state.co.us.

Visit the CMS No Surprises Act website for more information about your rights under federal law.

Visit DOI Out-of-Network website for more information about your rights under Colorado state law.

Ambulance Information: Balance billing claims related to services provided by air ambulances are

governed by federal law. Services provided by ground ambulances are regulated by Colorado state law

and do not allow private companies to balance bill. However, you may be balance billed for emergency

services you receive if the ambulance service provider is a publicly funded fire agency or if the ambulance services are for a non-emergency, such as ambulance transport between hospitals, that is not a post-stabilization service.

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THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW HEALTH INFORMATION MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY. 

I. MY PLEDGE REGARDING HEALTH INFORMATION: I understand that health information about you and your health care is personal. I am committed to protecting your health information about you. I create a record of the care and services you receive from me. I need this record to provide you with quality care and to comply with certain legal requirements. This notice applies to all of the records of your care generated by this mental health care practice. This notice will tell you about the ways in which I may use and disclose health information about you. I also describe your rights to the health information I keep about you and describe certain obligations I have regarding the use and disclosure of your health information. I am required by law to: 

• Make sure that protected health information (“PHI”) that identifies you is kept private.
• Give you this notice of my legal duties and privacy practices with respect to health information. 
• Follow the terms of the notice that is currently in effect. 

I can change the terms of this Notice, which will apply to all information I have about you. The new Notice will be available upon request in my office and on my website. 

II. HOW I MAY USE AND DISCLOSE HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU: The following categories describe different ways that I use and disclose health information. For each category of uses or disclosures, I will explain what I mean and try to give some examples. Not every use or disclosure in a category will be listed. However, all of the ways I am permitted to use and disclose information will fall within one of the categories. 

For Treatment Payment or Health Care Operations: Federal privacy rules (regulations) allow healthcare providers who have a direct treatment relationship with the client to use or disclose the client’s personal health information without the patient’s written authorization to carry out the healthcare provider’s own treatment, payment or health care operations. I may also disclose your protected health information for the treatment activities of any healthcare provider. This too, can be done without your written authorization. For example, if a clinician were to consult with another licensed health care provider about your condition, we would be permitted to use and disclose your personal health information, which is otherwise confidential, in order to assist the clinician in the diagnosis and treatment of your mental health condition. 

Disclosures for treatment purposes are not limited to the minimum necessary standard. Because therapists and other health care providers need access to the full record and/or full and complete information in order to provide quality care. The word “treatment” includes, among other things, the coordination and management of health care providers with a third party, consultations between health care providers, and referrals of a patient for health care from one health care provider to another. 

Lawsuits and Disputes: If you are involved in a lawsuit, I may disclose health information in response to a court or administrative order. I may also disclose health information about your child in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful processes by someone else involved in the dispute, but only if efforts have 

been made to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested. 

III. CERTAIN USES AND DISCLOSURES REQUIRE YOUR AUTHORIZATION: 

 Psychotherapy Notes. I do keep “psychotherapy notes” as that term is defined in 45 CFR § 164.501, and any use or disclosure of such notes requires your Authorization unless the use or disclosure is:

• For my use in treating you.
• For my use in training or supervising mental health practitioners to help them improve their skills in group, joint, family, or individual counseling or therapy.
• For my use in defending myself in legal proceedings instituted by you.
• For use by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to investigate my compliance with HIPAA.
• Required by law, and the use or disclosure is limited to the requirements of such law.
• Required by law for certain health oversight activities pertaining to the originator of the psychotherapy notes.
• Required by a coroner who is performing duties authorized by law.
• Required to help avert a serious threat to the health and safety of others.

IV. CERTAIN USES AND DISCLOSURES DO NOT REQUIRE YOUR AUTHORIZATION.
 

Subject to certain limitations in the law, I can use and disclose your PHI without your Authorization for the following reasons:
 

1. When disclosure is required by state or federal law, and the use or disclosure complies with and is limited to the relevant requirements of such law.
2. For public health activities, including reporting suspected child, elder, or dependent adult abuse, or preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone’s health or safety.
3. For health oversight activities, including audits and investigations.
4. For judicial and administrative proceedings, including responding to a court or administrative order, my preference is to obtain authorization from you before doing so.
5. For law enforcement purposes, including reporting crimes occurring on my premises.
6. To coroners or medical examiners when such individuals perform duties authorized by law.
7. For research purposes, including studying and comparing the mental health of patients who received one form of therapy versus those who received another form of therapy for the same condition.
8. Specialized government functions, including ensuring the proper execution of military missions; protecting the President of the United States; conducting intelligence or counter-intelligence operations; or, helping to ensure the safety of those working within or housed in correctional institutions.
9. For workers’ compensation purposes. Although my preference is to obtain an Authorization from you, I may provide your PHI in order to comply with workers’ compensation laws. 10 Appointment reminders and health-related benefits or services. I may use and disclose your PHI to contact you to remind you that you have an appointment with me. I may also use and disclose your PHI to tell you about treatment alternatives or other healthcare services or benefits that I offer.
10. Billing and payment: Your PHI may be provided to collection agencies, third-party payers, including EAPs, Vouchers, Scholarships, billing companies, or similar organizations that must be consulted regarding processing and payment for services rendered. These companies may require information relative to your treatment, including your diagnosis, your progress, your treatment plan, and other information relative to billing and payment.

V. CERTAIN USES AND DISCLOSURES REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OBJECT.
 

1. Disclosures to family, friends, or others. I may provide your PHI to a family member, friend, or other person that you indicate is involved in your care or the payment for your health care unless you object in whole or in part. The opportunity to consent may be obtained retroactively in emergency situations.
 

VI. YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO YOUR PHI:
 

1. The Right to Request Limits on Uses and Disclosures of Your PHI. You have the right to ask me not to use or disclose certain PHI for treatment, payment, or health care operations purposes. I am not required to agree to your request, and I may say “no” if I believe it would affect your health care.
2. The Right to Request Restrictions for Out-of-Pocket Expenses Paid for In Full. You have the right to request restrictions on disclosures of your PHI to health plans for payment or health care operations purposes if the PHI pertains solely to a health care item or a health care service that you have paid for out-of-pocket in full.
3. The Right to Choose How I Send PHI to You. You have the right to ask me to contact you in a specific way (for example, home or office phone) or to send mail to a different address, and I will agree to all reasonable requests.
4. The Right to See and Get Copies of Your PHI. Other than “psychotherapy notes,” you have the right to get an electronic or paper copy of your medical record and other information that I have about you. I will provide you with a copy of your record or a summary of it, if you agree to receive a summary within 30 days of receiving your written request, and I may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee for doing so.
5. The Right to Get a List of the Disclosures I Have Made. You have the right to request a list of instances in which I have disclosed your PHI for purposes other than treatment, payment, or healthcare operations or for which you provided me with an Authorization. I will respond to your request for an accounting of disclosures within 60 days of receiving your request. The list I will give you will include disclosures made in the last six years unless you request a shorter time. I will provide the list to you at no charge, but if you make more than one request in the same year, I will charge you a reasonable cost-based fee for each additional request.
6. The Right to Correct or Update Your PHI. If you believe that there is a mistake in your PHI, or that a piece of important information is missing from your PHI, you have the right to request that I correct the existing information or add the missing information. I may say “no” to your request, but I will tell you why in writing within 60 days of receiving your request.
7. The Right to Get a Paper or Electronic Copy of this Notice. You have the right to get a paper copy of this Notice, and you have the right to get a copy of this notice by e-mail. And, even if you have agreed to receive this Notice via e-mail, you also have the right to request a paper copy of it.

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