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5 Ways to Grow Your Mental Health Group Practice

Being the business-savvy practice owner that you are, you may be thinking about the best ways to grow your group mental health practice in the coming year. The combination of a creative marketing strategy coupled with an efficient behavioral health…

Kimberly ScholtenDecember 3, 2021

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The Importance of Measurement-Based Care for Behavioral Health Grant Writing

If you seek grants to further the work of your behavioral health practice or research initiative, you likely spend time contemplating what will excite grantmakers about your cause. What will motivate them to pick you for an award?

Heidi AmrineOctober 28, 2021

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Kids are back in school. How is it affecting behavioral health practices?

It's been a couple of months since students have gone back to school this fall and the transition has taken its usual toll on their behavioral health. For the fall of 2021, the COVID pandemic is yet another factor making…

Andrew SchatzbergOctober 26, 2021

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7 Behavioral Health Horror Stories to Prepare You for Halloween

As Halloween approaches, many behavioral health providers have already seen enough scary things dealing with practice management. Running a practice in the fast-paced world of private practice mental health is no easy task, with frights and dangers jumping out everywhere.…

Andrew SchatzbergOctober 8, 2021

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Do I Need an Office Anymore? In-Person vs. Telehealth Behavioral Health

Can clinicians operate with only a virtual office? Do they need physical offices anymore? Who wins the telehealth vs. in-person behavioral health debate?

Andrew SchatzbergSeptember 29, 2021

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Measurement-Based Care: What Do Patients Think?

Why You Should Educate Your Patients About the Benefits of Measurement-Based Care Although behavioral health providers are fast embracing measurement-based care as an effective approach that generates better results for patients, patients themselves are—on the whole—less knowledgeable about this methodology…

Heidi AmrineSeptember 17, 2021

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Your Patients are Feeling the Heat: How Summer Heat Affects Mental Health

Summertime! Beaches, barbeques, baseball games – there is an endless list of fun activities associated with this time of year. But as many mental health practitioners know, summer weather can be hard on their patients’ mental health. In fact, there…

Andrew SchatzbergAugust 27, 2021

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Using Measurement-Based Care to Improve Patient Outcomes in Mental Health

A growing body of research affirms that behavioral health treatments are far more effective when clinicians use objective measures to assess patient progress. This practice, known within behavioral health as measurement-based care, involves the repeated screening of patient symptoms over…

Andrew SchatzbergAugust 25, 2021

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How to Create a Great Behavioral Telehealth Patient Experience

Telehealth has taken the healthcare field by storm, and behavioral health is no exception. As an innovative method of healthcare delivery, telehealth was already a rising trend before the advent of COVID-19. Now the pandemic has cemented the popularity of…

Andrew SchatzbergAugust 20, 2021

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E/M Codes for Psychiatrists: Coding Basics

In the field of psychiatry, practitioners share a common headache with the rest of the medical industry – medical coding and billing. It is essential that psychiatrists understand the nuances of this complex area in order to maximize reimbursement and…

Andrew SchatzbergAugust 18, 2021