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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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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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Outcome Measures and Rating Scales – Where to Start

Outcome measures have been talked about in the behavioral health field for over 20 years yet only 18% of psychiatrists and 11% of psychologists in the US routinely use outcome measures (Fortney, Sladek, & Unützer, 2015). There is a lot…

Heidi AmrineMarch 15, 2021

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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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