What Medicaid Work Requirements Mean for Your Agency Starting January 1, 2027
Barrett Merrill
October 17, 2026
Picture a client who's been in weekly treatment with you for months, making real progress, fully covered by Medicaid the...
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5 Things Behavioral Health Agencies Must Know Before Enrolling with a New Insurance Payer
Barrett Merrill
October 3, 2026
You hire a great new clinician, they start seeing clients within a week, and everyone's excited about the growth. Then...
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What 2026 Medicaid Reimbursement Changes Mean for Your Agency’s Budget
Barrett Merrill
September 21, 2026
If next year's budget feels harder to pin down than usual, it's not just you. Between federal funding changes, new...
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Why Clean Claim Rates Drop as Medicaid Behavioral Health Agencies Scale Past 20 Staff
Barrett Merrill
September 9, 2026
If your billing process ran smoothly at 12 clinicians and started falling apart somewhere around 25, you're not imagining it,...
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Do You Need a COO? How Practice Leaders Know When to Bring In Non-Clinical Leadership
Barrett Merrill
August 20, 2026
If you're the founder or clinical director of a growing behavioral health group practice, chances are your week looks something...
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Mergers and Acquisitions in Behavioral Health: What Practice Owners Need to Know
Barrett Merrill
August 5, 2026
If you've gotten a call from a broker lately, or a larger regional provider has quietly asked whether you'd ever...
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Checkpoint EHR and The Hope Institute Announce Partnership to Expand Access Suicide Prevention Care
Barrett Merrill
August 4, 2026
This Partnership combines The Hope Institute's groundbreaking suicide treatment methodology with Checkpoint EHR's behavioral health technology infrastructure to help providers...
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What CARF Surveyors Actually Check in Your Clinical Records: A Documentation Checklist
Barrett Merrill
July 16, 2026
If your behavioral health organization has a CARF survey on the calendar, you've probably already lived through the week-before scramble....
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Top Documentation Mistakes That Trigger Medicaid Audits in Behavioral Health
Barrett Merrill
July 8, 2026
When a Medicaid audit happens, it rarely comes down to one major issue. More often, it’s a pattern of small...
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