FREESTAND HEALTH · RESEARCH PHASE · 2026
Run the practice, not the paperwork.
We're building the full back office for independent behavioral-health practices — so AI handles the admin and clinicians handle patients. Right now, we're doing one thing: listening to the people who live this problem.
01 · THE PROBLEM
Independent prescribers lose 30–40% of their time to admin.
Psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners who own their practices spend nearly half their working hours on claims, denials, prior authorization, eligibility checks, credentialing, intake, and documentation — not on patients.
And every option today is a bad one: do it yourself on nights and weekends, hand 6–9% of collections to a billing service, surrender the payer relationship to a network, or leave insurance entirely. This administrative burden — not the medicine — is the single biggest reason independent practice is so hard to sustain.
- 30–40% of hours on admin
- $1,000–2,000 / prescriber / mo to billing services
- PMHNP certifications up 809% in 9 years
02 · WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR
We want to hear from independent practice owners.
If you own your practice and bill insurance — or recently stopped — we'd like 30 minutes of your time.
Psychiatrists
who own an independent practice.
Psychiatric NPs (PMHNPs)
running their own practice.
Small independent groups
one to four prescribers.
In-network, or recently left
anyone billing insurance, or who left it behind.
30 minutes · $125 honorarium · nothing to buy. We want your reality, not your money.
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