How About Payment?
Payment Methods
Scheduling Appointments
Abintra has always tried to keep our rates (insured and non insured) reasonable so that a wide range of people may access our services. We offer a discounted series rate for those who want to utilize sessions for regular health care and prevention and those experiencing financial hardship. We have always felt that people who pay for insurance should benefit from medically insured massage when needed. So we take the extra time and effort to make it possible for our service to be covered by various medical insurance plans, Washington State Labor & Industrial Insurance and motor vehicle insurance. We also provide Gift Certificates to honor and treat those special people in your lives on special occasions.
Payment Methods
Abintra accepts payments via cash, check, Visa/Mastercard, American Express and Discover credit cards and motor vehicle, medical and labor and industrial insurance billing.
Gift Certificates for
massage and hypnotherapy may be purchased over the phone or in person
and will be sent to the purchaser or recipient.
These following rates apply to any general massage and hypnotherapy
session. A general massage session refers to one
that is not specifically injury related.
Our rates for general sessions paid by cash at the time of services are:
Half hour
Hour
One hour and a half
Two hours$40
$80
$120
$160
Our discounted rates for a series of four general prepaid sessions are:
Half hour
Hour
One hour and a half
Two hours$35each/$140 for four
$75each/$300 for four
$115 each/$460 for four
$155 each/$620 for four
Jerome and Corinne are preferred massage providers
with the medical
insurance companies listed below. Services under this category require that we
do a verification of benefits before booking your appointment except for Group Health Cooperative. GHC referrals are their verification of benefits.
· Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield
· Health Ways Washington Networks
· Group Health Cooperative
· Aetna
· Cigna Health Plans
· Premera Blue Cross/Life Wise
· Uniform Medical Plans
· Providence Health Plans
Our rates when billing medical, motorvehicle and labor and industry insurance for clinical treatments with documentation under a physicians prescription are:
Half hour
Hour
One and One Half Hour$50
$100
$150Note: the usual allowed amount by insurance is an hour. Most medical insurance companies have an allowed monetary amount that they are willing to pay for our services. It is usually below the amounts listed, often times considerably. So in determining your copayments if you have them, you would need to ask your insurance company what their allowed amount for four 15 minute units of the massage code of 97124 is and what the percentage of that amount would be your copayment.
We offer discounts to various medical insurance plans to assist their members in their health maintenance when massage is not considered medically necessary and is ineligible for payment by the insurance company such as:
· A 20% discount through coverage with a Health Ways Network insurance plan,ie. Group Health Cooperative.
· A 15% discount through coverage with Premera Blue Cross.
Our series rate (without the prepayment) may be applied to those who are suffering a financial hardship such as unemployment or a fixed, low income.
Well, how do you get an appointment with us?
For a general massage, that is not injury related; where you are not working with a physician and requiring documentation for your insurance, the best way to obtain an appointment is to give us a call at (206)522 9384 or you may email us at AbintraWellness@mac.com or fax us at (206)260 9002.
To schedule a medical massage that is paid by your insurance company:
· Call us with the following information to verify your benefits,; your name (as your insurance company has it); your date of birth; insurance ID# or social security #; your phone number; the main policy holder’s name, date of birth, and insurance ID/social security #.
· We will call the insurance company to verify that your benefits cover massage; how much they will pay; and if you need a prescription, and from whom; and if the insurance company has to process an authorization or in-house referral.
· Then we call you back to inform you of your benefits as related to massage and book your appointment if your insurance policy is active and you have all that the policy requires, Otherwise we inform you of your policy requirements.
The process is usually very quick, easy and painless. Even if you have called your insurance company, it is mandatory that we verify your benefits before beginning treatment. We do so to assure as best possible that you will not be billed later for something that your insurance will not cover.
To schedule a massage appointment paid by on a Labor and Industrial claim:
· Call us
· Give us your L&I claim number
· Schedule the appointment
To schedule a massage appointment paid by your motor vehicle insurance:
· Get a referral or presciption for massage from your physician
· If your insurance company says you do not need a physician’s referral then call us and give us your insurance agents name so we can verify that before your appointment.
· Schedule your appointment. Bring all of your insurance information with you to your appointment.