Karen Gieseke Ph.D. & Associates Inc., 

Office Information

Scheduling Your Appointment

Thank you for visiting our website. Our office is open daily. The office manager is available from 8am-5pm Monday through Friday. Therapists work a variety of hours, with evening and Saturday appointments available.

When you call for the first time, an intake appointment will be scheduled as soon as possible with Dr. Gieseke or the intake coordinator. At the intake appointment we will assess your needs and recommend an appopriate therapist who can meet your needs. If you reach us after business hours, feel free to leave us a message and we will call you back as soon as possible. You can also email us at gieseke.assoc@gmail.com. Please be advised that email is not a secure method of communication for medical or other personally identifiable information.

You may contact the office by phone: 401-842-0009

Insurance & Billing

For your convenience, for all types of counseling that we provide, we accept some health insurances. At the current time, we accept all Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island plans as well as other Blue Cross plans from out of state. We are preferred providers for Blue Cross Blue Shield. If you have questions on your specific Blue Cross Plan, you can check your insurance booklet, or you can call our office and our office manager can assist you. Blue Cross plans offer good coverage for all mental health services.

We also accept: Tricare Prime, Retired and Standard, United Healthcare, and United Ritecare. Some of our providers accept Tufts Health Plans. Our applications to be a provider for Neighborhood Health Plan and Medicare are currently pending.  We anticiapte approval in January of 2017. If we do not take your insurance, we offer a discounted cash rate for our services.

For psychological and neuropsychological testing we accept the above mentioned insurance plans. If your insurance plan does not cover testing you may receive a quote from the office manager, over the phone. For insurance plans with high deductibles, a retainer may be required.

For any questions about fees, please contact our office by phone. All patients are expected to pay their copay or deductible at the time of the session. We also ask that a 24 hour notice for cancellation be provided to avoid a $50 late cancellation or no-show fee.

Forms

To streamline the intake process during your fist appointment, please download and complete the forms provided below and provide them to the office staff when you arrive for your visit:

Adults:
Adult intake form
HIPAA form

Children:
Child intake form
HIPAA form

Completed forms can also be scanned and emailed to the office at gieseke.assoc@gmail.com. Please be advised that email is not a secure method of communication for medical or other personally identifiable information.

42 Valley Rd ˇ Suite 3C ˇ Middletown, RI 02842 ˇ v (401)842-0009 ˇ f (401)842-0059
18 Gooding Avenueˇ Bristol, RI 02809