Dr. Helms | Office Visits | Retreats | Resources          Office Visits Overview Fee Schedule Insurance Coverage Home   Overview   As a new patient you will meet with Dr. Helms twice over the course of 7 - 10 days (about 40 minutes at each visit). The first visit will review your case - please be sure to bring medications including all supplements with you as well as copies of recent blood work or diagnostic tests. The interval between meetings will allow for blood work or other laboratory tests to be preformed as well as time to consult with specialists and other members of your healthcare team. The second meeting will allow for consolidating information, review of diagnostic results, and most importantly to clarify a healthcare plan.   Follow-up apportionments are often every 3-6 weeks until significant patient healing or outcome measures have been achieved.   Back to the Top>>   Fee Schedule   For all patients, either those with or without health insurance, we ask that you pay for your visit at the time of service. We will provide a receipt or "superbill" including necessary codes and information for insurance reimbursement for those who wish to submit for having seen an Out-of-Network Provider.   Comprehensive Evaluation: $290 (includes two 40 minute visits over the course of 7-10 days)   Acute Conditions and Returning Patients 60 minutes: $150 30 minutes: $75 $25/10 minutes Telephone consults: $25/ 10 minutes   We encourage the use of HSA's and "Flex" spending accounts as these usually allow for the coverage of our services.   Back to the Top>>   Insurance Coverage   As of January 2012 many insurance companies such as, DMBA, PEHP, Aetna, and Cigna cover naturopathic medical services although Intermountain Health Care (IHC), Altius, and Educators Mutual do not. On a more positive note, most conventional laboratory and diagnostic tests are covered by all insurance companies as long as an in-network lab is used.   Unfortunately, most insurance companies do not include naturopathic medical doctors as Providers however Dr. Helms may be covered as an "Out-of-Network" Provider. To find out if his services may be covered by your plan, please contact your insurance carrier and ask about your "out of network" provider benefits. Be sure to check the status of your deductibles: both in and out of network, and family vs. individual, and whether or not lab testing is included in your deductible.   Back to the Top>>     Copyright © 1999-2012, Stephen Helms, N.M.D., All rights reserved.  Site design & host: NeuronLinks, Inc.