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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and the major commercial payers each publish the...
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and the major commercial payers each publish the...
Read more →JotBill is the billing engine built into JotPsych. It turns a signed note into an insurance claim, submits the claim, posts the payment, and works...
Read more →Before self-scheduling, a patient could book only one way: call the practice and wait for someone to answer, during business hours. Now they book...
Read more →PDMP stands for prescription drug monitoring program, the state database that logs every controlled-substance prescription a patient has already...
Read more →Prescribers finish their notes, then open a second system to send prescriptions. JotRx puts the prescription in the same chart.
Read more →Most note software makes the clinician switch to its format. JotPsych starts from the format already in use, then changes any note from typed...
Read more →JotMeet holds the telehealth visit inside the patient's chart. The patient joins from one link, nobody installs anything, and the session ends...
Read more →History, assessment trends, and medications, all in view the moment the chart opens.
Read more →A practice concentrated in Medicaid carries that program's entire policy calendar at once. Diversifying into commercial payers is the hedge, and...
Read more →Work requirements mean more eligibility reviews. When a state or federal reviewer opens a Medicaid chart, the note decides whether the visit...
Read more →A payer that already paid a claim can still take the money back later. How much later depends on the state and the payer, and three paths carry no...
Read more →A denial happens before a payer pays a claim. A recoupment happens after, sometimes years later, and it can start from a handful of sample claims...
Read more →Every new patient starts with an intake. Medicare's rate for the psychiatric diagnostic evaluation rose only 3.9% for 2026, the smallest increase...
Read more →Same new-patient visit, a different code, meaningfully more money, when a prescriber does the intake and the medical elements are actually there...
Read more →The 30-minute psychotherapy code is the shortest standalone session Medicare recognizes. It pays the least of the three time bands, and a high...
Read more →A prescriber who does 20 minutes of real psychotherapy inside a medication visit can bill for it separately. Medicare raised the rate 12.0% for...
Read more →The 45-minute session is the workhorse of outpatient therapy, the code behind what most patients think of as their weekly hour. Medicare raised it...
Read more →The middle add-on code covers a full standard therapy block layered onto a medication management visit. Medicare raised it 11.6% for 2026, and it...
Read more →The 60-minute session pays the most of the three psychotherapy time bands, and Medicare's own auditors have a specific number in mind for how...
Read more →The longest psychotherapy add-on covers a full hour of therapy layered onto a medication visit. It shows up in an unexpected place: multi-hour...
Read more →Group psychotherapy pays the least per patient of any code in this series, by a wide margin. It is also the code where the per-clinician-hour math...
Read more →The level-2 established-patient visit is the shortest, lowest-paying code in the office-visit family. Medicare raised it 8.1% for 2026. Most...
Read more →The level-3 established-patient visit is the most common office-visit code in all of medicine. In behavioral health it plays a second role: it is...
Read more →The level-5 established-patient visit is reserved for the most complex medication-management encounters: multiple unstable conditions, high-risk...
Read more →Esketamine visits do not look like any other code in behavioral health: one code covers the drug, the administration, and two hours of required...
Read more →The higher-dose esketamine code pays more than any other single code in this series, more than eight times what a standard 60-minute therapy...
Read more →You already know which patients are on Medicaid. The new work requirement does not test that. It tests whether a patient can prove their status in...
Read more →Cigna, Optum, and Aetna each publish the rules their reviewers use. Nobody reads your note against those rules. Then a reviewer opens it years...
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...
Read more →Medicare will soon require an in-person visit for new behavioral-health telehealth patients. Start them on or before December 31, 2027 and they stay exempt...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Read more →The number that sets every Medicare payment fell five years straight. In 2026 it finally reversed, and behavioral health got the largest...
Read more →Commercial payers routinely pay behavioral health at rates far below what comparable medical specialties earn. New federal enforcement rules that...
Read more →The level-4 office visit is the workhorse of behavioral-health medication management. Over a decade its Medicare rate quietly eroded, jumped on a...
Read more →Eleos builds AI agents for documentation, compliance, and revenue cycle inside large community behavioral-health organizations. JotPsych does the...
Read more →Freed is a general-medical AI scribe built to cover more than 30 specialties at once. Behavioral health is one of them. JotPsych is built for...
Read more →Heidi Health is a general clinical AI scribe used across medicine, nursing, dentistry, and veterinary care, with mental health listed as one...
Read more →mdhub is the closest thing to a platform in this comparison: intake, notes, e-prescribing, telehealth, and billing, built only for behavioral health.
Read more →Nabla is an ambient documentation tool built for large health systems running Epic and other major electronic health records (EHRs), across every...
Read more →Upheal has grown into a real electronic health record (EHR) for therapists: notes, scheduling, telehealth, insurance billing, and a compliance...
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 →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.
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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 →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 Suki for behavioral health documentation.
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