Insights, guides, and news for behavioral health professionals
Hear the JotPsych team talk behavioral health, AI documentation, and the future of clinical practice.
The level-4 visit is the workhorse of behavioral-health medication management. Over a decade its Medicare rate eroded, jumped, then fell, and some commercial payers now quietly pay it as a 99213 without telling you.
Read more →Five payer-side changes landed in a six-month stretch. The biggest one hasn't hit yet. Here is the timeline, what each one means, and the one move that ...
Read more →The number that sets every Medicare payment fell five years straight. In 2026 it finally reversed, and behavioral health got the largest carve-out. Here...
Read more →Commercial payers routinely pay behavioral health at rates far below what comparable medical specialties earn. New federal enforcement rules that took f...
Read more →Claim denials are rising across all of commercial insurance. Behavioral health starts from a worse baseline than the rest of medicine, and the 2025 data...
Read more →A growing number of states now require a clinician to sign off before a payer's algorithm can deny care. More are moving that way. Most states still hav...
Read more →Medicare will soon require an in-person visit for new behavioral-health telehealth patients. Start them before December 31, 2027 and they stay exempt fo...
Read more →Work requirements take effect January 1, 2027. For a behavioral health (BH) practice carrying 30% or more Medicaid census, that is not a policy deadline...
Read more →More than 80% of appealed Medicare Advantage (MA) prior authorization (PA) denials are overturned. Most practices never appeal. The denial code tells yo...
Read more →The Office of Inspector General flagged 58 cents of improper payment in every dollar billed for Medicare psychotherapy in its last major audit. The Reco...
Read more →Payers do not openly fight you. They quietly bleed you: through underpayments you do not notice, denials you do not appeal, and documentation gaps you d...
Read more →For behavioral health clinicians, documentation is already one of the most time-intensive parts of the job. UnitedHealthcare's upcoming 2026 updates deserve attention.
Read more →JotPsych announced JotRx, an integrated e-prescribing system that lets clinicians move from session recording to note completion to prescription.
Read more →JotPsych announced the launch of JotAudit, an audit-intelligence platform that fundamentally rewrites how behavioral-health clinics document care.
Read more →Psychiatric care often requires a dual focus: medication management and psychotherapy. This template covers both.
Read more →A complete psychiatric progress note template designed for medication management and follow-up visits.
Read more →A comprehensive psychiatric intake template covering the initial evaluation, history, and treatment planning.
Read more →A specialized addiction assessment template for substance use disorder evaluations and treatment planning.
Read more →A comprehensive look at how AI is transforming behavioral health documentation, billing, and clinical workflows in 2025.
Read more →Documentation burden goes beyond time. Explore the hidden financial, clinical, and personal costs affecting behavioral health providers.
Read more →JotPsych secures $5M seed round from Base10 Partners, fast-tracking transition to the first fully agentic EHR for behavioral health.
Read more →We're thrilled to announce our $5M seed round led by Base10 Partners. Here's what it means for JotPsych and for behavioral health.
Read more →Get more out of AI documentation tools by learning how to write effective prompts that produce better clinical notes.
Read more →A comprehensive comparison of the top AI scribes available for behavioral health professionals in 2025.
Read more →Side-by-side comparison of JotPsych and Freed.ai for behavioral health documentation.
Read more →A behavioral-health AI scribe and assistant vs the operating system that runs the whole practice: e-prescribing, scheduling, telehealth, billing, and credentialing compared.
Read more →Side-by-side comparison of JotPsych and Heidi Health for behavioral health documentation.
Read more →Side-by-side comparison of JotPsych and Nabla for behavioral health documentation.
Read more →Side-by-side comparison of JotPsych and Suki for behavioral health documentation.
Read more →Side-by-side comparison of JotPsych and Eleos for behavioral health documentation.
Read more →Side-by-side comparison of JotPsych and Upheal for psychiatry documentation.
Read more →How JotPsych's behavioral-health-specific AI stacks up against Freed on note quality, workflow fit, and specialty depth.
Read more →A head-to-head look at JotPsych and Nabla across clinical accuracy, EHR integration, and behavioral health specialty support.
Read more →How JotPsych's mental-health-native platform compares to Heidi Health on note customization and specialty-specific output.
Read more →JotPsych vs Eleos Health: comparing behavioral health AI documentation tools on session capture, note quality, and clinician adoption.
Read more →Comparing JotPsych and Blueprint on AI-assisted documentation, measurement-based care tools, and behavioral health practice management.
Read more →A direct comparison of JotPsych and Upheal on therapy session transcription, progress note generation, and telehealth workflow fit.
Read more →JotPsych vs Mentalyc: how each platform handles therapy note automation, session analysis, and mental health documentation standards.
Read more →Comparing JotPsych's AI-first documentation layer with TherapyNotes' established EHR on clinical workflow and documentation efficiency.
Read more →JotPsych vs SimplePractice: how AI-native documentation compares to SimplePractice's all-in-one practice management platform for therapists.
Read more →Comparing JotPsych and Osmind on AI documentation, treatment-resistant psychiatry workflows, and ketamine/TMS clinic support.
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