Partner programs

Embed FMG psychiatry
into your facility.

We integrate board-certified psychiatrists, PMHNPs, and CLIA-certified diagnostics into PHP, IOP, residential, and crisis programs. Your brand, your clients, our clinical and compliance work in the background.

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BCBS-credentialed Medicare & Medicaid Telemedicine in 30 days

The reality

Behavioral health programs are leaking patients
at the medical handoff.

A client gets stable in your program, then walks into a six-week wait for an outside psychiatrist. By the time the appointment comes around, half of them have relapsed or disengaged. The medical layer your accreditors expect is the same layer most programs can't staff sustainably.

We rebuilt the model around that gap. FMG runs the psychiatry, addiction medicine, and lab work as a service line that lives inside your program, under your brand. Your clinicians keep doing what they do well. We carry the medical, billing, and compliance load underneath.

How embedded FMG works

From first call to first patient,
about thirty days.

We've run this playbook with hospital systems, residential treatment programs, and county crisis teams. The four phases below are the same regardless of program size.

  1. Discovery call.

    Week 1

    We meet your clinical and operations leads, walk through your census, payer mix, and current medical coverage gaps. You leave with a written scope and a coverage model proposal inside three business days.

  2. Credentialing & BAA.

    Weeks 2 to 4

    FMG handles state licensure verification, payer credentialing, and the BAA. Your team signs one master service agreement. We coordinate EMR access and note templates with your IT lead in the same window.

  3. Provider placement.

    Day 30

    Telemedicine coverage starts on day 30. A named psychiatrist or PMHNP is assigned to your program, on a recurring schedule that matches your admissions cadence. On-site hours phase in once census supports it.

  4. Ongoing operations.

    Month 2 onward

    Monthly clinical and operational review with your medical director or program director. We share outcomes data, prescribing audit trails, and lab utilization, and we adjust coverage as your program grows.

Before and after

What changes when FMG is
inside your program.

Five operational shifts your program directors and CFO will notice inside the first quarter.

Comparison of typical behavioral health program operations before and after partnering with FMG: psychiatric coverage, retention, medication management, accreditation readiness, and billing.
Before FMGWith FMG
Psychiatry coverage stops at the discharge form, clients wait six weeks for an outside evalSame-week evaluations on-site or via telehealth, fully integrated into your treatment plan
Census drops between admission and the first medical contactClients see a psychiatrist or PMHNP inside week one, retention climbs in our partner data
Medications managed by three different prescribers, none of whom talk to each otherOne coordinated medication plan, documented in your EMR, reviewed each treatment week
Accreditation surveys flag thin medical oversight and unclear protocolsPhysician-led oversight, signed protocols, and audit trails ready for CARF, JCAHO, or state surveyors
Your billing team fights with payers over services your staff aren't credentialed to deliverFMG bills directly for the medical work. Your AR stays clean, your team stays clinical

What we bring

A full clinical service line,
staffed and ready.

Six capabilities your program can plug into, individually or as a bundle.

  • Board-certified MDs

    Most FMG psychiatrists are dual-boarded in psychiatry and internal medicine. Medical Director services available where required.

  • PMHNPs

    Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners for high-volume coverage and bridge prescribing across every level of care.

  • TMS programs

    NeuroStar TMS as an adjunctive or post-discharge option. We help partners stand up in-house TMS or refer to our Richmond hub.

  • Spravato programs

    REMS-certified Spravato delivery for treatment-resistant depression, on-site or via referral through FMG's Richmond clinic.

  • MAT & injectables

    Buprenorphine, naltrexone, Brixadi, Sublocade, Vivitrol, plus long-acting psychiatric injectables. Induction and maintenance.

  • Telehealth

    HIPAA-compliant telemedicine across VA, UT, GA, and TX. Day-30 coverage for any partner program inside our license footprint.

Plus pharmacogenetic testing, qEEG brain mapping, LC-MS/MS toxicology, and individual talk therapy through our CLIA-certified lab and clinical team.

Compliance & credentials

Built for the survey,
not just the patient visit.

Behavioral health is one of the most regulated specialties in medicine. We treat that as a feature, not a tax. Every partnership ships with documentation that holds up under CARF, JCAHO, and state surveyor review.

  • BCBS credentialed
  • Medicare & Medicaid
  • CARF accreditation ready
  • HIPAA & HITECH
  • Licensed in VA, UT, GA, TX
  • DEA & PDMP compliant

Composite partner snapshot

Partner case study

“We brought FMG in to cover psychiatry across our PHP and IOP. Inside ninety days our 30-day retention climbed and our medical-related survey findings dropped to zero. The thing I didn't expect was how much our therapists liked it. Their clients were finally getting medication answers in real time.”

Program Director

Mid-Atlantic behavioral health system. Composite of three FMG partner programs, anonymized for confidentiality.

Frequently Asked Questions

Telemedicine coverage typically launches within 30 days of contract signature. Credentialing for in-person providers runs in parallel and unlocks on-site coverage as soon as your census supports it. We've gone from kickoff call to first telehealth visit in under three weeks for partners with existing payer relationships.
FMG bills payers directly for the medical and psychiatric services we provide. Your program never carries the AR risk on our work. For bundled or per-diem models common in residential and crisis settings, services can be billed to the host program at standard Medicaid rates so you keep a clean single-payer ledger.
Yes. We work inside your EMR by default (Kipu, Sigmund, AccuMedic, eClinicalWorks, Epic, and others), under your branded note templates. If you need an FMG-side chart for medical-legal reasons, we maintain a parallel record with bidirectional summaries. No double-entry on your team.
FMG providers carry their own malpractice coverage at $1M/$3M limits, with FMG named as the corporate practice. We also indemnify the host program for the clinical work we perform. Certificates of insurance and our corporate compliance plan are available before contract signature.
FMG providers prescribe under their own DEA numbers and follow each state's PDMP rules. We generate prescribing audit trails on request and integrate with your urine drug screening program through our CLIA-certified lab. For MAT specifically, we follow DATA-Waiver and X-Waiver protocols in every state we cover.
We sign a BAA with every partner before kickoff. Records cross via your EMR, encrypted SFTP, or a HIPAA-secure messaging layer (we support Spruce, OhMD, and Klara). FMG is HIPAA and HITECH compliant, and our infrastructure passes annual third-party security audits.
Most partnerships run on a 12-month initial term with 90-day mutual termination after that. We don't lock programs into long contracts. If census shifts, the coverage model flexes with you. Telehealth-heavy in slow months, more on-site hours when admissions climb.
Yes, and most do. Continuity of care is one of the highest-value pieces of the partnership. Clients can transition to FMG outpatient psychiatry, MAT, or telehealth follow-up after discharge from your program. That continuity is one of the strongest predictors of post-discharge retention in the data we share with partners.

Build a stronger program

Schedule a partnership call.
No-obligation scope in 30 minutes.

Tell us about your program, your census, and your medical coverage gaps. We'll come back inside two business days with a written proposal and a 30-day launch timeline.

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Day-30 telehealth go-live CARF-ready documentation Direct payer billing