Services

What is Offered

          *  Comprehensive Evaluation
*  Individual Psychotherapy
*  Integrated Psychopharmacology (Within 50 minute psychotherapy sessions with Dr. Dundas)
*  Split Psychopharmacology (20 minute designated psychopharmacology sessions, Dr. Dundas can work with your therapist)
          *  Family Therapy (Dr. Dundas may work with a social worker for family therapy)
*  Psychopharmacology Consultation (For a second opinion)
          *  Diagnostic Testing
          *  Referral to appropriate practitioners if needed

Mental Health Expertise

* Mood Disorders
* Thought Disorders
* Anxiety Disorders
* Eating Disorders
* Substance Addictions
* Attentional Problems
* Personality Disorders
* Sexual Issues
* Other forms of Mental Illness

Insurance

Dr. Dundas is not currently a provider on insurance panels. He can help you to get reimbursement from your insurance company by giving you an invoice after your visit. This invoice containing CPT and Diagnostic codes that you can submit to your insurance company so that they will know what services you were provided. You should contact your insurance company ahead of coming to your first visit to see how much they will reimburse you for seeing an out of network provider. Sometimes insurance companies will agree to pay an in-network rate, if you document that you have contacted several psychiatrists in your area who are not currently taking patients. Dr. Dundas will submit any paperwork needed to make it easier for your insurance company to reimburse you.

Rates

        Initial Evaluation - 1 hour & 20 minutes
        $300.00

        Psychotherapy visit - 50 minutes
        $200.00

        Medication management visit - 20 minutes
        $100.00

Payment for the evaluation is due at that visit in the form of a check payable to Brian Dundas M.D.
Subsequently visit payments can be arranged with Dr. Dundas to occur at the end of each month or after each visit.

Your First Appointment

When you call  Dr. Dundas will listen to what your needs, talk to you about the practice, and if appropriate schedule a first meeting.  At the first meeting, all you need to bring is yourself. There will be paperwork that Dr. Dundas will give you to fill out and return.

Dr. Dundas will meet you for 1 hour and 20 minutes and conduct a diagnostic evaluation. This extended time period gives you a chance to meet Dr. Dundas and ask any questions you might have. He will listen to your life story and hear about the current issues that need attention.  At the end, he will give you an introductory assessment that will help you decide if Dr. Dundas can help you or if  an outside referral may be more helpful to you. 

After this assessment is complete, a treatment agreement may be mutually agreed upon. Dr. Dundas may recommend individual/family psychotherapy and/or a careful trial of a medication.  He will also tell you about medical and social service follow up that he recommends, if necessary, for a comprehensive evaluation.


Policies

For twenty minute medication management visits, please call at least 24 hours in advance for any visit cancellation. Missed visits without any notice given will be billed in full as the visit time was set aside. Insurance companies may not reimburse you for a missed visit fee.
        
Fifty minute psychotherapy times are especially hard to change as the time is reserved for you week after week. If you are seeing Dr. Dundas for psychotherapy visits, please tell him at least one week prior to any missed visit. If he is able to fill your time
with another visit or reschedule you at a different time in the week, it will not be billed.  If, however, he is unable to do so, you are responsible for the payment given the special reserved nature of psychotherapy visits and the meaning that can be associated with missed visits.
      
Please remember to bring all prescription requests to your visit. Extra prescription requests outside of visit times will not be charged initially unless it becomes a pattern at which time a 25 dollar fee will be added for prescription requests outside of visit times.
  
Rates are subject to increase by the annual rate of inflation every April.

Emergencies

Dr. Dundas is available during normal business hours Monday through Thursday. He will return your call during these times in the week with the exception of holidays. Outside of these times, if there is an emergent issue, please call the crisis team at (413) 499-0412.  They are available 24 hours a day and can direct you to emergency services. In a serious emergency please dial 911.