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Preparing Your Behavioral Health Business to Scale: Auditing Operations to Grow

“Scaling” is the goal of many business owners, including many behavioral health business owners. If you’ve considered hiring more providers, growing your client list, or opening new locations, you probably identify growth or scaling as a major goal. But it…
Andrew Schatzberg
September 1, 2023
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Things to Consider When Opening Your Own Private Practice

Welcome to your journey of opening your own private practice in mental health! Several early keys to success are defining your practice’s vision and niche, navigating laws and regulations, budgeting and creating a business plan. Subsequently, you'll need to decide…
Andrew Schatzberg
August 5, 2023
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Therapist Scheduling Software

Effective therapist scheduling software empowers you to better serve your patients. Despite being a problem that almost every service-oriented business faces, scheduling tools are hard to get right. This is why we at Valant have worked hard to perfect our…
Andrew Schatzberg
July 29, 2023
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3 Ways to Achieve HIPAA-Compliant Communication for Behavioral Health

Communicating with patients - in a compliant manner - is an essential part of your behavioral health practice. All practices must comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In order…
Andrew Schatzberg
July 28, 2023
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Goals for 2023 – Grow Your Mental Health Practice

Grow your mental health practice in the second half of 2023 by setting, adjusting, and reaching achievable SMART goals around patient growth, finances, staff, and EHR. Many business owners shy away from goal setting because of overwhelm. Mental health practitioners,…
Andrew Schatzberg
July 22, 2023
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The Great Patient Scheduling Debate: Should Patients Be Able to Self-Schedule?

Patient scheduling is one of the most critical workflows to optimize at your behavioral health practice because it is one of the most frequent tasks on any given day. As with so many administrative processes, technology has revolutionized appointment booking,…
Andrew Schatzberg
April 22, 2023
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How to Make Your Group Telehealth Appointment a Success

How to Make Your Group Telehealth Appointment a Success Telehealth is a new frontier in the practice of group therapy. Despite the slough of information on individual telehealth since the pandemic began, fewer resources exist to guide clinicians in implementing…
Andrew Schatzberg
March 17, 2023
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6 Ways to Use Broadcast Messaging for Behavioral Health

Simplify the management of your practice by using broadcast messaging for behavioral health in these six creative ways. Broadcast messaging is a game changer when it comes to sending real-time, urgent messages to your behavioral healthcare clients. The same is…
Andrew Schatzberg
March 7, 2023
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How Can Behavioral Health Services Leverage ChatGPT?

In November 2022, a service called ChatGPT was released by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) research company founded in 2015. ChatGPT taps into a large database of text data from various sources (books, the web, etc.) to produce automated text…
Andrew Schatzberg
February 15, 2023
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The Hidden Cost of Managing Prospective Patients: How Your EHR Can Help Coordinate New Patient Inquiries.

The Hidden Cost of Managing Prospective Patients: How Your EHR Can Help Coordinate New Patient Inquiries. Whether you’re a solo practitioner or the manager of a multi-provider clinic, you must develop an effective system to coordinate new patient inquiries. Prospective…
Andrew Schatzberg
December 17, 2022