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Pitfalls of Choosing a Multi-Specialty EHR

When it comes to practice management software, you need a product built specifically for behavioral health. EHRs meant to serve multiple healthcare disciplines may not offer your practice the functionality you need to deliver the best care to patients. Many…

Heidi AmrineJune 21, 2021

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Your Measurement-Based Care Tool Kit

For modern-day behavioral health practices, measurement-based care provides a great deal of promise. Through the use of outcome measures in their client care, practitioners can see drastic improvements in both their quality of care and bottom lines. But before rushing…

Heidi AmrineJune 21, 2021

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Subscription or Perpetual? Why Your Choice of EHR Software Matters for Your Mental Health Practice

In the world of EHR software, a mental health practice has two main purchasing choices: subscription or perpetual, with “perpetual” meaning a one-time purchase where the practice owns the software outright. While the overall EHR industry trend is to offer…

Heidi AmrineJune 17, 2021

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Donna’s Story: Visually Impaired Provider Connects with Patients Through Valant EHR

Working at Valant, we often hear inspiring stories from our customers. Here’s a special example from Donna Offield, M.A., LPC. The Beginning Donna Offield did not come into this world easily. While her father was serving in the United States…

Andrew SchatzbergJune 15, 2021

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Measurement-Based Care: Putting Your Clinical Data to Work

Data equals knowledge. Good clinical data provides the irrefutable evidence that goes beyond our assumptions and observations to give us actionable intelligence. Data keeps us from wasting time and resources. Clinical data in the behavioral health industry allows clinicians to…

Heidi AmrineJune 9, 2021

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ICD-10 Codes for Depression 2024 – F32.0–F33.3

ICD-10 Codes for Depression In this blog post, Valant discusses the ICD-10 codes for depression, ranging from F32.0 to F32.9. It’s important to note coding changes frequently; the code for 2021 went into effect on October 1, 2020. As of…

Odd DogJune 4, 2021

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ICD-10 Code for Anxiety, Unspecified 2024 – F41.9

In this blog post, Valant discusses the ICD-10 code for anxiety. The ICD-10 code for unspecified anxiety disorder is F41.9. It is important to note, however, that there are a number of anxiety disorders indexed in ICD-10. The ICD-10 code…

Odd DogJune 1, 2021

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How To Get Paid For Measurement-Based Care

If your practice hasn’t started administering outcome measures or using measurement-based care, you should be. Why? Not only is it rapidly becoming the standard of care, but it allows you to achieve better patient outcomes faster, and you can get…

Heidi AmrineMay 5, 2021

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What is Measurement-Based Care?

Measurement-based care is a term that’s been around since 2006, yet remains unfamiliar to many behavioral health professionals still today. It is defined as the systematic administration of symptom rating scales and other assessment tools to help initially assess behavioral…

Heidi AmrineMay 3, 2021

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How to Evaluate Credit Card Processing Options for Your Mental Health Practice

Accepting credit card payments is a necessary part of business even in the behavioral health field. Your business might have a mix of clients including those who pay a co-payment, those who pay out-of-pocket, or those who may never pay…

Heidi AmrineApril 9, 2021