What We Do
What AdvanceAPractice Does
AdvanceAPractice is the operating partner for behavioral health practices. We diagnose the business side of how your practice runs, build the systems it should run on, and can run them with you.
The Path
The Engagement Ladder
Most engagements follow one path: diagnose, build, run. We start by finding out what is actually broken on the business side of your practice, build the fixes worth building, and stay on to run the operation if you want an operator in the seat. Each stage stands on its own and earns the next. You start with a Readiness Review and decide the rest from there.
Diagnose: Readiness Review
A two-week, eight-domain audit of how your practice actually runs, scored against a fixed rubric. You get a written report with quantified findings and a prioritized 30/60/90 plan. It is the entry point and the only thing you decide on today. See the Readiness Review.
Build: 30-Day Implementation Sprint
Over roughly four to five weeks we build the top workflow upgrades the Review surfaced, from scratch or on top of the tools you already run. You see weekly demos and keep every asset. See the Implementation Sprint.
Run: Managed Operations
An optional fractional operations partner who tunes the system month over month, adds automations, and runs the operation through growth or transition. See Managed Operations.
You are never asked to commit to all three up front. For the full path and how the stages connect, see How We Work.
The Domains
The Domains We Work In
The ladder is how we engage. These are the domains we work in once we are inside. Billing is one of them, not the whole job. We rebuild the operating system your practice runs on, and the claims, the credentialing, the day-to-day operations, and the software all sit inside it.
Billing & Revenue Cycle
Claim flow, denials, A/R aging, and the workflow your money actually runs on. We fix the operating system the claims ride on, not just the claims. See Mental Health Billing and Revenue Cycle Management.
Credentialing & Enrollment
Payer enrollment status, renewals, and the gaps that quietly block revenue and delay new hires. We make where every provider stands with every payer visible and tracked. See Credentialing & Enrollment.
Practice Operations
Intake, scheduling, retention, team ownership, SOPs, and the dashboards that show how the practice is doing. The day-to-day operation that everything else depends on. See Practice Operations.
Custom Software & Automation
Bespoke automations and our proprietary Command Suite power the build, scoped to your practice rather than sold off a shelf. See Custom Software & Automation and the Command Suite.
Who It Is For
Built for Behavioral Health
We work with provider-led behavioral health practices: psychiatry and PMHNP groups, PsyDs, MDs, and psychologists. We know how these practices bill, credential, and run, so the work starts specific instead of generic. We are EHR-agnostic and optimize the system you already own rather than selling you a new one.
Part of being useful is being clear about the lines we do not cross. There are a few things we deliberately leave to others.
- We do not make clinical or coding decisions. Those stay with your providers and coders.
- We do not build net-new EHRs. We are EHR-agnostic and optimize the system you already run.
- We do not run patient collections, and we do not give legal or tax advice.
If your EHR is fine and the workflow around it is the problem, we will tell you that.
Positioning
Why Practices Choose AAP
Practices usually weigh us against three other kinds of help: a billing company, a strategy consultant, or whoever their EHR vendor recommends. Here is the honest difference, and why none of those covers what we do.
Versus Billing Companies
Billing is one of eight domains we audit. A billing company works the claims; we rebuild the operating system the claims run on, so the whole revenue cycle improves instead of one handoff in it.
Versus Strategy Consultants
We ship working assets inside the tools you already own, not slide decks. You keep documented SOPs, automations, dashboards, and templates that run after we leave, not a strategy you still have to build.
Versus EHR-Bundled Consulting
We are EHR-agnostic. We have no platform to sell, so we will tell you when your EHR is fine and the workflow around it is the real problem, instead of recommending the system we are paid to push.
Fees are flat and quoted after your Readiness Review.
See the Whole Operation in One Review
One diagnostic shows you what is working, what is leaking, and what it would take to fix, across the whole operation, not just billing.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What Exactly Does AdvanceAPractice Do?
We are a practice-operations partner for behavioral health practices. We run a Readiness Review to diagnose how your practice actually operates, build the highest-priority workflow and system upgrades in a 30-Day Implementation Sprint, and can stay on through Managed Operations to run the operation with you. Inside that work we handle billing and revenue cycle, credentialing, day-to-day operations, and custom software and automation.
Do You Only Do Billing?
No. Billing is one of several domains we work in. We audit eight operational domains and rebuild the operating system your claims run on, so credentialing, intake, retention, team operations, data, and the software around them all improve, not just the billing handoff.
Do You Replace My EHR?
No. We are EHR-agnostic and do not build net-new EHRs. We optimize the system you already own and build the workflows around it. If your EHR is fine and the operation surrounding it is the problem, we will say so.
Who Is This For?
Provider-led behavioral health practices: psychiatry and PMHNP groups, PsyDs, MDs, and psychologists. We know how these practices bill, credential, and run, so the work starts specific to you rather than generic.