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Getting Started:
Start the process with our secure
New Patient Information Form.
What to bring to your appointment:
- Your insurance card
- A list of current prescription or over-the-counter medications you are taking, including dose and frequency.
- Pertinent information about your medical and surgical history.
- Forms the office may have sent you (which can be downloaded directly below)
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Forms:
Please click on a link below to download and print the appropriate form. Please complete and bring to your initial session.
Cancellation Policy:
Therapy is a commitment and an agreement. When an appointment is scheduled, the time is set aside for you and no one else. The hour is not double-booked, and attendance to sessions is very important. Cancellations and missed appointments not only interfere with your treatment progress, but also affect other clients who could have used that hour but were scheduled at a later date.
Consequently, it is appreciated that cancellations and/or missed appointments are avoided unless there is an emergency or an illness. Your clinician will make every effort to provide you the same courtesy.
If you must reschedule or cancel an appointment, please provide advance notice (greater than 24 hours) so that the hour can be given to another client. This courtesy is appreciated and shows a commitment to your treatment as well as respect for the needs of other clients and your clinician's time.
An appointment cancelled on less than 24 hours notice, and missed appointments, will be billed a cancellation fee. This fee will not be charged to insurance, and is your responsibility to pay in full. Same-day cancellations due to weather conditions (snow & ice) will not be charged as long as a telephone call is received in the office the morning of the appointment.
Prescription Refill Policy:
We strive to provide the best and most appropriate care. Recently, last minute requests for call in medication refills have increased significantly, resulting in a strain in staff time. Also, medications called in over the phone, particularly by a covering physician, are more prone to errors. For these reasons, we are instituting the following protocol, both to limit call-ins and to ensure that there is sufficient time to do them accurately.
- If you wish to avoid a charge for call in prescriptions, you must make your request on Monday through Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. or on Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon. Please allow up to 24 hours for your prescription to be called in.
- If you request a call in prescription outside these hours, there will be a service charge of $20. This charge will not be covered by your insurance.
- If a covering physician responds to your request, you can expect that you will have only a limited supply of medication called in. The service charge of $20 will still apply.
- To avoid having to call in for prescriptions, please try to keep your regularly scheduled appointments, as our physicians try to write prescriptions in a way that ensures you will be covered from one visit to the next.
If you anticipate running out of medication in advance of your next scheduled appointment, please give yourself and us enough time by calling at least one week before you run out of medication.
Community Information:
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Abilities in Motion (AIM)
416 Blair Ave
Reading, PA 19601-1910
888-376-0120
www.abilitiesinmotion.org
Alcoholics Anonymous
Reading Berks Intergroup
610-373-6500
www.readingberksintergroup.org
Alzheimer's Association
501 Washington St, Ste 801
Reading, PA 19603
610-375-4990
800-272-3900 - Helpline
www.alz-delawarevalley.org
Autism Society of America - Berks
610-736-3739
www.autismsocietyofberks.org
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Berks Aids Network
429 Walnut St
Reading, PA 19603-8626
610-375-6523
www.berksaidsnetwork.org
Berks County Office of Aging
Community Services Center
633 Court St
Reading, PA 19601
610-478-6500
www.berksaging.org
Berks County Children & Youth Services (BCCYS)
633 Court St, 11th Floor
Reading, PA 19601
866-777-8780
www.co.berks.pa.us
Berks County Intermediate Unit (BCIU)
1111 Commons Blvd
Reading, PA 19612-6050
610-987-2248
www.berksiuk12.pa.us
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Berks Women in Crisis
645 Penn St, 2nd Floor
Reading, PA 19601
610-373-1206
610-372-9540 - Hotline
www.berkswomenincrisis.org
Children's Home of Reading
1010 Centre Ave
Reading, PA 19601-1498
610-478-8266
www.childrenshomeofrdg.org
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
610-736-3095
800-950-6264
www.nami.org
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
866-615-6464
www.nimh.nih.gov
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Reading Hospital and Medical Center
Center for Mental Health
Sixth Ave & Spruce St
West Reading, PA 19611
610-988-8070
www.readinghospital.org
Service Access & Management (SAM)
19 North 6th Street, Ste 300
Reading, PA 19601
610-236-0530
www.sam-inc.org
United Way
501 Washington St
Reading, PA 19601
610-685-4550
www.uwberks.org
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