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Behavioral Health & Medical Practice Operations

Billing, Credentialing & Practice Operations for Independent Healthcare Practices

Start a behavioral-health or outpatient practice, add a provider, change your entity, or repair an operation that is holding back revenue. Choose a defined package and begin online, or ask AI Concierge to identify the right starting point.

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Fixed package prices · Secure onboarding · Work documented through Command Suite

Keep your practice independent. Get the business side working. Know exactly what happens next.

Start With Your Situation

What needs to become true?

Choose the situation that matches your practice today. Defined packages show the full price and can be started online.

01

Start my first practice

Coordinate the entity, identifiers, payers, systems, scheduling, and billing path.

$6,000 total

See First Practice Launch

03

Change my entity or Tax ID

Move existing payer relationships through a controlled business transition.

$2,500 per provider

See Entity Transition

04

Build my insurance panel

Create an independent, billing-ready panel with documented follow-through.

$2,500 per provider

See Therapist Credentialing

05

Fix billing or operations

Find the upstream cause, correct it, and establish a process that holds up.

Sprints from $4,500

See Improvement Sprints
$10M+
recovered in aged and unpaid receivables
16+ years
in healthcare revenue cycle and credentialing
50 states
of PMHNP resource coverage

What Do You Need to Accomplish?

One accountable partner for the business side of the practice

Behavioral health billing & RCMClaims, denials, A/R, and revenue-cycle management Credentialing & payer enrollmentContracts, enrollment, revalidation, and transitions PMHNP practice launchBuild the practice, payer, EHR, scheduling, and billing foundation Practice operationsClear ownership, workflows, and a dependable weekly rhythm Software & automationImprove EHR, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and connected practice workflows

How It Works

Choose, onboard, and follow every milestone

Payment opens your agreements and secure onboarding. Work begins after the required information, documents, and access are ready.

Fixed-price package

  1. Choose the package that matches your situation.
  2. Pay through secure checkout.
  3. Complete intake and upload the required documents.
  4. Once intake is complete, in-scope work begins within three business days.
  5. Track progress through completion; payer decisions and timing remain outside our control.

Scoped partnership

  1. Book a 20-minute Practice Fit Call.
  2. Receive a written scope, price, and kickoff date.
  3. Review and approve the Order Form.
  4. We build the agreed workflows, systems, or transition plan.
  5. We run the agreed cadence and report progress.
Ryan Berg, founder of AdvanceAPractice
Ryan BergFounder · Portland, Oregon

Experience Behind the Work

Built by people who have done the work beside practice leaders

For more than 16 years, Ryan has worked across hospital professional billing, outpatient revenue cycle, multi-site healthcare finance, and multi-state behavioral health operations.

AdvanceAPractice grew from that hands-on work with owners, clinicians, and administrative teams. The focus is practical: clear ownership, honest answers, and support that fits the people and systems already keeping your practice moving.

We work directly with the people responsible for the practice: owners, medical directors, physicians, PMHNPs, practice administrators, and billing and credentialing teams.

About AdvanceAPractice Ryan on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)
Redacted note from a PMHNP provider about a reimbursement correction

What careful follow-up can uncover

At one PMHNP-led practice, a contracted-rate review uncovered a payer discrepancy. Correcting it increased reimbursement by 30% across four months of team claims.

Written by a PMHNP working within the practice. Name and contact details are redacted; results vary by contract, payer, and claims. Read the full case study

Also included in Portland medical billing company roundups: MediBillMD, 2025 (opens in a new tab) and Nexus, 2026 (opens in a new tab).

Command Suite

The visibility your EHR was never built to give you

Managed engagements use Command Suite as part of the operating work. Practices that only need the software can subscribe separately for $99 per month—one practice, up to ten users, month to month.

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From Practice Owners

What becomes easier after the operating work is organized

“They reorganized our workflows, improved how our team communicates, and brought in smart automation that saved us measurable time and money. The operational visibility alone has been a game-changer.”
April Dvorak, PMHNP-BCMedical Director, Head Well Integrative Psychiatry & Wellness
“AdvanceAPractice has provided a great benefit to my growing practice. They clearly explained the confusing insurance billing process and helped me create a plan to expand my business.”
John Benson, PMHNP-BCOwner, BBH Psychiatric Services
“Ryan’s unique ability to have executive and business-like vision as well as possess the details of daily operations has been and continues to be crucial in delivering, serving, and supporting our patients, employees, and contractors.”
Tim Perez, PMHNP-BCCo-founder, ValueCore Mental Health

More Time for the Work You Trained to Do

You do not need a sales call to get started.

Choose a defined package and begin securely online. If the fit is unclear, AI Concierge can explain the options and take you to the right checkout.

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