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Strategies to Improve Your Mental Health Business

There are many strategies to consider when looking to improve your mental health business. Where do you start? Most successful behavioral health practices have these three things in common: They provide high-quality clinical care. They are profitable. They proactively mitigate…

Heidi AmrineMay 29, 2020

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Considerations for Choosing an EHR : An Interview with Melinda Fierros, MD

The various options of EHRs are vast. Going through the process of choosing an EHR can be time consuming and complex. Melinda Fierros, MD shares her journey in shopping for an EHR and why she ultimately chose Valant as the…

Heidi AmrineMay 21, 2020

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Improving Value-Based Care in Behavioral Health: An Interview with Vincent Bellwoar, PhD

Partnering with Valant EHR to increase market share and profits while meeting the challenges of Integrated Care, Outcomes Measures, and Value-Based Contracts Over the past dozen years, we have seen a significant shift in the role of behavioral healthcare. Once…

Heidi AmrineDecember 20, 2019

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Healthcare IT Is Only Important if You Want to Get Paid

Where Practices Lose Time and Resources and How Technology Can Help Managing a private behavioral health practice involves making several important decisions that will determine its margins. Depending on the size of the practice, owners and managers must take certain…

Heidi AmrineJune 18, 2018

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Debunking 5 Common PTSD Myths

Behavioral Health Matters: PTSD National attention to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often increases during public discussions over policy and governance of veterans affairs. Although behavioral health providers have a firm understanding of PTSD and appropriate strategies for care, the overall…

Heidi AmrineJanuary 29, 2018

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Outcome Measures and Behavioral Health

The case for outcomes-based care in the private practice setting Outcomes-based care is the paradigm across most physical health specialties, but behavioral health has been slow to adopt. Concerns over how using outcome measures might affect the quality of care…

Heidi AmrineOctober 31, 2016

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Internal Auditing Best Practices

5 Steps to Increase Preparation in a Private Behavioral Health Practice Audits are a nominal part of worklife for publicly funded behavioral healthcare organizations, but even small private practices are subjected to them from time to time. Some private practices…

Heidi AmrineAugust 22, 2016

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HIPAA Compliance Checklist

Quick tips for behavioral health practices HIPAA compliance is an important aspect of running a behavioral health practice, as the mismanagement of privacy measures could result in significant consequences for both patient and provider. Similar to the popular healthcare mantra,…

Heidi AmrineAugust 4, 2016

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5 Costly Treatment Plan Mistakes to Avoid

Behavioral health practices often have to fight for insurance remuneration, so it is important to have solid treatment planning tools and methodology in place to show the medical necessity of your rendered services. Below are 5 small but expensive mistakes…

Heidi AmrineApril 9, 2015

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