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Considering an Intensive Outpatient Psychotherapy (IOP) program at your facility? 

If you’re considering an IOP, you probably have a lot of questions.  How does it work?  What staffing is required?  How are billing and reimbursement handled?  As facility administrators ourselves, we know how daunting it can be to decide if a new service line is right for you.

If you’re starting from scratch and have questions, SMG can answer them.  We can:

• Perform marketing and feasibility studies to help you decide if an IOP is right for your service area.
• Build financial models to help you understand how the program might impact your bottom line.
• Explore ways to integrate an IOP into the services you already offer.

What if I’ve decided I want to start an IOP at my facility?  What now? 

If you’re ready to take the next step and start your IPO, say no more. SMG can do everything for you, including:

• Find and hire the staff you’ll need.
• Create a marketing plan that identifies nearby patients who would benefit from an IOP.
• Provide a set of comprehensive policies and procedures
• Make sure your staff is trained, compliant and audit-ready.

Once your new IOP is up and running, we’ll manage day-to-day operations so you can focus on running the rest of your facility.  SMG representatives can meet with you in-person on a regular basis and give you customized reports to show you how busy the program is and its impact on your bottom line.

I already have an IOP at my facility.  How can SMG help?

SMG’s experience includes running IOPs at several locations across the South, so we’re here to help manage yours in any way you need.  If you’re looking to free up administrative bandwidth by letting us manage your IOP, we’ll give it a top-to-bottom review and then assume management of your program.  We can also conduct marketing and turnaround studies if you suspect your program is underperforming.

SMG is a leader in compliance and auditing.  While most IOP management companies provide basic policies and procedures and then perform limited back end chart audits, SMG has developed a better way.  Using a proprietary system built into its exclusive EMR program, day-to-day activities are controlled in such a way that the most common compliance mistakes are not allowed to happen.

SMG HealthSuite: A revolutionary EMR, built from the ground up for IOPs. 

From its years of experience with starting and managing IOPs, SMG learned how critically important it is for these programs to be audit-ready every day, with robust compliance programs.  SMG also spent many years looking for an EMR that not only worked well for IOPs, but also helped manage compliance issues unique to IOPs.

When we couldn’t find one, we decided to build one.

SMG HealthSuite is a comprehensive, secure, cloud-based EMR made specifically for IOPs.  And while it has all the features you’d expect in such a program – like the ability to easily configure and schedule groups, and capture counselor’s notes – its biggest feature is the integration of SMG’s proprietary workflow processes.  Every chart guides your staff from one step to the next, not allowing them to continue unless everything required for a compliant record has been entered.  By making sure that your staff is taking care of the little things every day, SMG HealthSuite helps make sure that your IOP will have the big things done right.

SMG HealthSuite is available for a small monthly subscription fee as a standalone service or, for all IOPs managed by SMG, the use of the program is included for free.  Want to learn more? Schedule a demo today.