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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