Medicare · Solutions Psychiatry
Yes, Medicare is accepted here
No hedging and no fine-print games: this practice is in network with Medicare in five states, and your coverage is verified before your first visit, so your cost is known up front.
Solutions Psychiatry is the full practice: therapy and medication care from one clinician. If you want medication management only, that care has its own home at PsychMed Care.
The short answer
Most psychiatrist websites circle the Medicare question. This one answers it directly. Solutions Psychiatry accepts Medicare in Arizona, California, Colorado, Texas, and Utah. Care is telehealth psychiatry: therapy and medication management from one clinician, Karel Winner, DNP, PMHNP-BC, on secure video.
Your plan is verified before your first visit, and you will know your exact cost before that visit happens. If a specific Medicare plan or supplement does not verify, you hear that up front too, along with the self-pay rates ($350 for the 60 minute Comprehensive Initial Appointment, $250 for 30 minute Follow-up Appointments), so the choice is yours with real numbers.
Covered states
Medicare in five states
Arizona
Medicare accepted for Arizona patients, by secure video anywhere in the state. Arizona Medicare details.
California
Medicare accepted for California patients, by secure video anywhere in the state. California Medicare details.
Colorado
Medicare accepted for Colorado patients, by secure video anywhere in the state. Colorado Medicare details.
Texas
Medicare accepted for Texas patients, by secure video anywhere in the state. Texas Medicare details.
Utah
Medicare accepted for Utah patients, by secure video anywhere in the state. Utah Medicare details.
Medicaid: Oregon and Wyoming
The practice also accepts Medicaid in Oregon and Wyoming. Every plan, Medicare, Medicaid, or commercial, is verified before the first visit.
What Medicare visits here include
Medicare patients get the same care as every patient here, because there is only one standard. The Comprehensive Initial Appointment is a full 60 minute conversation: what brought you in, your history, your physical health, your sleep, what you have tried, and what a good outcome would look like. Follow-up Appointments run 30 minutes and are real conversations, not refill stops.
Therapy and medication management come from the same clinician, in the same course of care, which matters when a medication decision depends on context only therapy surfaces. When testing would change a decision, GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing and targeted labs are available as part of the workup. Whether a given test is covered under your plan is part of the verification conversation, before anything is ordered.
How verification works
Book a first visit and complete the intake forms. Before the visit, the practice verifies your Medicare coverage and works out your exact cost, including how a supplemental plan factors in. You get that number up front. There are no billing surprises afterward, and if the numbers do not work for you, nothing has been billed.
If medication management is all you need, the same Medicare coverage applies through the practice's other door: PsychMed Care, the medication management only practice, run by the same clinician. Practice-wide insurance questions live on the Solutions Psychiatry site.
Why combined care matters under Medicare
Medicare patients are the people the split system fails most visibly. A prescriber in one office, a therapist in another, a primary care doctor holding a third of the picture, and the patient relaying messages among all three. Here there is one clinician for therapy and medication, one chart, and one conversation that includes your physical health: sleep, pain, the other prescriptions on your list, and the lab values that can imitate depression or anxiety.
That whole-body lens matters more with every decade. Thyroid trouble, low B12, low vitamin D, and sleep apnea all present as psychiatric symptoms, and all of them are checkable. The lab panel this practice uses covers exactly those contributors, so a medication decision rests on a workup, not a guess. And because your prescriber hears your whole story in therapy, a side effect mentioned in passing gets weighed the same week, not at the next quarterly refill visit somewhere else.
Supplements, Advantage plans, and other wrinkles
Medicare is not one plan. Original Medicare, a supplemental policy, and Medicare Advantage all pay differently, and the honest answer to "what will this cost me" depends on which combination you carry. That is exactly why verification happens before the first visit rather than after the first bill. The practice checks your specific coverage, works out your exact cost, and tells you before you commit to anything.
If your specific plan does not verify, you will hear that plainly, along with the self-pay rates, $350 for the Comprehensive Initial Appointment and $250 for Follow-up Appointments, and the out-of-network check on the homepage fees section. No one here will tell you coverage is "probably fine" and let the claim decide later.
Questions Medicare patients ask
Do I need a referral to book?
Booking is direct: choose a time, complete the intake forms, and your coverage is verified before the visit. If your particular plan asks for anything additional, verification surfaces it in advance, and you will be told exactly what is needed rather than discovering it afterward.
What if I spend part of the year in another state?
Tell the practice where you will be. Care is licensed across 35 states and Washington DC, and Medicare itself is national, so for most patients a seasonal move changes the view out the window, not the care. Your clinician stays the same, and so does the chart.
What will the first visit cost me?
A specific number, not a range, and you will have it before the visit happens. Verification comes first; the Comprehensive Initial Appointment is booked with your cost already known. If the figure does not work for you, nothing has been billed and no appointment has been kept under false pretenses.
One clinician for the whole conversation.
Start with a 60 minute Comprehensive Initial Appointment. Your insurance is verified before the visit, and you leave with a plan, not vague reassurance.