Why Join IMHPA? Why NOW?
Expand Your Community! Challenge Payers!
State-wide Marketing for Telehealth & In-person Practice
Includes; Diagnostic, Follow-up & Client Satisfaction Measures, Private Analytics Process & Outcomes. Electronic Health Record Supports Clients’ Confidentiality, MRI’s Free Audit Protection Education.
IMHPA now offers mental health professionals three $20 per month entry points for membership. Enroll, enjoy IMHPA’s marketing and technology resources, meet, collaborate, consult with colleagues and support future healthy contracts. Market your practice in every area of Oregon with your well designed and personal marketing page at OregonTherapyOptions.com.
IMHPA members find support for themselves and colleagues through active involvement in peer consultation, collaborative marketing, conversation and healthy contract advocacy. Members gather when and where possible, socially and professionally. IMHPA’s goals include support for independent mental health practices, replacing the isolation of individual and small group practice with healthy collaborations that develop cross-referrals based on knowing one another’s skills and strengths.
Enrollment goal: 500 to 1000 and more independent Oregon mental health professionals, sharing a clear, persistent voice to challenge and negotiate with health plans!
IMHPA is committed to support for independent mental health professionals and advocacy for healthy contracts. Many in private practice avoid health plan contracts, or accept only one or two because the payers’ reimbursements are low.* Payers’ mental health contracts do not reflect the well-established fact that mental health services have significant positive economic impact (benefiting health plans). Mental health care improves emotional and functional well-being while substantially reducing many other medical costs.
The future of mental and behavioral health services in Oregon will include commercial and publicly funded payment contracts developed in various value-based-payment (VBP) models. Fee-for-service contracts will diminish as VBP contracts increase. Groups will be able to enter VBP contracts designed to demonstrate the benefits of mental and behavioral health care services, individuals will not.
The complete absence of state regulations that define and require well designed, high-quality payers’ contracts for mental and behavioral health services is a major problem for providers and the public. Healthy contract regulations are essential to meet Oregon’s stated objectives of improved access to care with focus on patient-centered outcomes and higher quality.
IMHPA partners with Mentor Research Institute (MRI) to advocate for healthy contracts legislation. The goal: protect the public and care providers. Oregon is currently a safe haven that allows health plans to engage in fraud and anti-trust violation without any consequence to the health plans.
IMHPA is a contracting structure which has provided support for independent practices since 1996.
IMHPA supports ethical, independent, solo and collaborative group mental health practices as Oregon stumbles toward the new arena of value-based contracting.
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*A recent survey of psychologists found that 37% worked only “out of pocket.”
Coming in 2025: IMHPA Audit Protection Benefit