Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't afford to pay over a couple thousand for a neuropsych for my 12-year-old son. I have Anthem insurance... do any providers take Anthem and provide discounts? Where do low income people get the evaluations done for their kids and do providers ask for income verification if reduced rates?

TIA!

Children's and KKI take insurance. Depending on circumstances, the school will do a psycho-ed, which (again, depending on circumstances) is enough to get accommodations.

But the cost of a comprehensive and high quality evaluation is one reason why poor students are often overdiagnosed with behavior-related diagnoses and underdiagnosed with other diagnoses.

Lower income people can get neuropsychs through insurance, but they have to wait, sometimes 1-2 years. But I have heard stories of people getting off of waitlists much sooner than initially quoted so get on the waitlists ASAP! I haven't seen a private provider offer sliding scale rates for low income people, but I have seen local schools offer lower prices for evaluations done by grad students (overseen by fully credential faculty).

Anonymous wrote:I can't afford to pay over a couple thousand for a neuropsych for my 12-year-old son. I have Anthem insurance... do any providers take Anthem and provide discounts? Where do low income people get the evaluations done for their kids and do providers ask for income verification if reduced rates?

TIA!

Children's and KKI take insurance. Depending on circumstances, the school will do a psycho-ed, which (again, depending on circumstances) is enough to get accommodations.

But the cost of a comprehensive and high quality evaluation is one reason why poor students are often overdiagnosed with behavior-related diagnoses and underdiagnosed with other diagnoses.

Two years ago we paid $5,400 at Stixrud.

I can't afford to pay over a couple thousand for a neuropsych for my 12-year-old son. I have Anthem insurance... do any providers take Anthem and provide discounts? Where do low income people get the evaluations done for their kids and do providers ask for income verification if reduced rates?

TIA!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the approx cost of a neuropsych at a place like Stixrud?

DS (adhd, exec dysfunction, anxiety) had a neuropsych about 10 years ago and his schools have not required an update to renew his 504 plan. He is a senior in Hs and I have been tokd colleges require a post age 16 neuropsych to grant accomodations.

Thanks.

I have a senior and have been panicking about paying for a new neuropsych eval (original one was done in middle school.) Talk to the disability office where your child is attending. I talked to them this weekend and was told with a current 504 for general accommodations (extra time/note taking assistance) they don't need an updated neuropsych. I was told to submit the current 504, old neuropsych, and any other testing (ie. OT) and it should be fine.

I nearly hugged the lady.

This is really good advice to talk to disability offices at universities to which you are applying/have been accepted. I have 2 kids, one with an IEP and 1 with a 504. Both with different medical and learning abilities/disabilities. When I looked at school disability offices, requirements varied widely.

At one DC's top 5 Ivy university - ADHD accommodation explicitly required a neuropsych or psychoed assessment, while depression required a form from the doctor. (Also the Ivy asked for information regarding what specific meds the student is taking, which I think is illegal, and I the requirement of recent documentation is challengeable depending on facts, but that's another thread.)

Other schools (and tests like SAT, ACT, GRE, etc.) use a history of documented disability, so a 504 form might suffice. And this was definitely would work at some of the large public state schools I researched.

Stixrud 2023: 5.2K with Dr Henderson and her assistant. ADHD/ASD/anxiety with low processing speed.

Anonymous wrote:We paid $3880 in the summer of 2022 for a our last full neuropsych prior to entering college.

That was a complete cost - all intake, 2 says of testing incl IQ, wide battery of achievement, language, attention and processing tests plus various questionnaires for attention, exec function, mood, anxiety and personality factors. Plus a post-test meeting to review results with parent and child (which we did separately because of timing and age).

Excellent, thorough job. DC read the report and thought it was a very good description of him.

I should have specified above that I paid $3880 in summer 2022 @ Stixrud

Recently did one at Georgetown Psychology, it was $5.5K for weekday, $6K for weekend

$4000-$5000

Stixrud and similar are close to $7K these days (we called around in the fall).
I hope you are able to cut some corners with what the college requires!

Anonymous wrote:What is the approx cost of a neuropsych at a place like Stixrud?

DS (adhd, exec dysfunction, anxiety) had a neuropsych about 10 years ago and his schools have not required an update to renew his 504 plan. He is a senior in Hs and I have been tokd colleges require a post age 16 neuropsych to grant accomodations.

Thanks.

I have a senior and have been panicking about paying for a new neuropsych eval (original one was done in middle school.) Talk to the disability office where your child is attending. I talked to them this weekend and was told with a current 504 for general accommodations (extra time/note taking assistance) they don't need an updated neuropsych. I was told to submit the current 504, old neuropsych, and any other testing (ie. OT) and it should be fine.

I nearly hugged the lady.

We paid $3880 in the summer of 2022 for a our last full neuropsych prior to entering college.

That was a complete cost - all intake, 2 says of testing incl IQ, wide battery of achievement, language, attention and processing tests plus various questionnaires for attention, exec function, mood, anxiety and personality factors. Plus a post-test meeting to review results with parent and child (which we did separately because of timing and age).

Excellent, thorough job. DC read the report and thought it was a very good description of him.

5 k minimum without insurance

What is the approx cost of a neuropsych at a place like Stixrud?

DS (adhd, exec dysfunction, anxiety) had a neuropsych about 10 years ago and his schools have not required an update to renew his 504 plan. He is a senior in Hs and I have been tokd colleges require a post age 16 neuropsych to grant accomodations.

Thanks.