In-depth resources for running sustainable, well-documented care
You're being asked to deliver better care with tighter margins under evolving payment models.
These are our practical guides for running care management programs—built for psychiatrists, primary care, and integrated behavioral health teams.
Care management billing is notoriously complex: overlapping code sets, MAC-specific rules, and documentation requirements that vary by program. These guides cut through the confusion with plain-English explanations, eligibility criteria, documentation checklists, and collision rules—all grounded in CMS and APA guidance.
Care Management & Billing
Practical guides for navigating care management programs—eligibility, documentation, collision rules, and operational workflows.
Care Management for Psychiatrists
What measurement-based care infrastructure enables. The psychiatric consultant role in CoCM. When CCM applies to psychiatry practices. Documentation requirements and common pitfalls.
Care Management for Primary Care
CCM, APCM, and the proposed GPCM add-ons for 2026. Eligibility, consent, initiating visits, and monthly documentation. Collision rules when patients qualify for multiple programs.
Care Management for BHI Programs
Standing up General BHI and CoCM in primary care. Registry requirements, care manager workflows, and the psychiatric consultant model. How to avoid double-counting when BHI overlaps with CCM or APCM.
A Primary Care Leader’s Guide: APCM Now, GPCM Coming
How to use APCM and BHI today, what GPCM might look like, and what you can do this year to be ready without overreacting.
Practice Operations
Adding psychiatric coverage to a therapy practice: a grounded playbook
Staffing, supervision, documentation, and care-model options for therapy practices that want psychiatric partnership without losing their identity.
Five Cases Standard Care Would Have Missed
Real cases from our clinical partnership with Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine. See what comprehensive assessment actually finds—bipolar masked as depression, supplements causing symptoms, trauma never disclosed.
These guides are educational resources, not billing or legal advice. Always verify requirements with your MAC and compliance team. GPCM content reflects the CY 2026 proposed rule—not yet finalized.These are our practical guides for running care management programs—built for psychiatrists, primary care, and integrated behavioral health teams.
Estimate your opportunity
In our clinical partnership with Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine, comprehensive assessment surfaced an average of 8–10 clinically relevant conditions per patient—versus the literature benchmark of 2.8. Wondering what that clinical yield—and the care pathways it opens—could mean for your practice? Our ROI tool helps you get a directional sense.
*Results are illustrative. To understand what’s realistic for your payer mix and state, we recommend a Practice Checkup.
Webinar & Events
Live and recorded sessions where we dive into care models, workflows, and real implementation stories.
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Occasional, deeply thought-through notes on modern care models, sustainable psychiatry and therapy practices, and integrated behavioral health—written from the vantage point of a clinician who still sees patients. Plus case studies and findings from our clinical work that don’t make it to the main site.
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Guides and calculators are helpful, but every clinic has its own mix of patients, payers, and people. If you'd like to explore what these care models and workflows would look like in your reality, we're happy to think it through with you.
