The Agency Standard
Clinical Operations Infrastructure · Behavioral Health

There is a standard for running a behavioral health agency.
We built it — inside one.

The Agency Standard installs the operating infrastructure of an accredited, multi-site behavioral health provider — the standards, workflows, documentation architecture, supervision systems, and compliance monitoring — inside agencies that are ready to stop running on heroics.

2×
Joint Commission accreditation cycles led — all services surveyed
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Credentialed sites operated across multiple states
4
Managed-care networks; 650+ contracted service line-items
24hr
Documentation standard enforced by our own workflow automation
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Agencies built from zero by the founders

The Problem

Most agencies don't discover how fragile their operations are until an audit, a payer review, a complaint, a resignation — or growth itself — exposes the gaps.

Documentation varies by clinician, by site, by day — and audits find it.
Authorizations slip — and every missed reauthorization is a month of unbillable service.
Supervisors are stretched — quality depends on individual heroics, not reliable systems.
The owner is the system — intake, QA, and the crisis line all run through one person.

Your EHR records what happened. It doesn't run anything. Every dollar an agency leaks, it leaks in the space between EHR entries — referral follow-up, authorization deadlines, credential expirations, onboarding, supervision schedules, audit prep. We systematize that space: not with advice, but with working infrastructure that runs today inside our own accredited organization.

Where Is Your Agency Right Now?

Three stages. Every agency is in one of them. Find yours.

01
Stabilize
  • Did an authorization lapse this quarter — and cost you a month of unbillable service?
  • Are you finding out about expired credentials after the fact?
  • Would an audit letter tomorrow send your team into a week-long scramble?
Stop the leaks first. Start with a $500 Discovery Session — credited in full toward your Readiness Assessment.
Start here →
02
Systematize
  • Is your agency still run on texts, spreadsheets, and memory?
  • Does every critical process live in one person's head — probably yours?
  • Does quality depend on individual heroics instead of reliable systems?
Replace heroics with infrastructure. The Readiness Assessment maps it; the Operations Buildout installs it.
See how we build →
03
Sustain
  • Systems built — but drifting the moment no one's watching?
  • Growing into a new site, service line, or accreditation cycle?
  • Need executive-level operations leadership without the executive salary?
Keep the standard held. Support retainers and fractional clinical-operations leadership, accreditation-tested.
Stay ahead →

Answered yes to any of these? That's not a failing agency — that's a growing one without an operations department. It's exactly who we built this for.

How We Work

Every engagement starts with a diagnostic. The roadmap does the rest.

Readiness Assessment

Start Here

A structured diagnostic of your clinical operations: scorecard, compliance-risk findings, documentation quality review, workflow gap analysis, supervision and staffing review — delivered with a prioritized implementation roadmap in two to three weeks.

Operations Buildouts

Systematize

Configured workflow platforms for intake, authorizations, staffing, documentation tracking, and QA — with automations, leadership dashboards, SOPs, and staff training. From platform setup to full operations buildout with policy libraries and rollout.

Accreditation Readiness

Joint Commission · CARF

Standards gap analysis, mock survey with findings report, corrective roadmap, and survey-week preparation — led by founders who have taken their own organization through two Joint Commission cycles with all services surveyed.

Ongoing Support & Fractional Leadership

Sustain

Monthly operations support retainers, quarterly data and outcomes reporting, and fractional clinical-operations executive leadership — accreditation-tested guidance at a fraction of a full-time hire.

Policies, Credentialing & Enrollment

Foundations

Operationalized policy and procedure development, payer and LME/MCO enrollment application support, clinician credentialing packages, and ongoing credential tracking.

Training & Templates

Enable

Staff and leadership workshops on documentation quality, audit readiness, and operational accountability — plus de-identified policy, SOP, and workflow template licenses for agencies that want to start with the tools.

Facing the RB-BHT transition?

North Carolina's proposed policy changes are reshaping staffing, credentialing, and supervision requirements for RB-BHT and related service lines. Our RB-BHT Transition & Operations Readiness assessment shows you exactly where your services stand, what your exposure is, and whether to continue, restructure, or adapt — framed in your agency's own numbers, before the clock runs out.

Request a Transition Assessment

Transparent Pricing

Flat fees, published. Every engagement starts small, and every dollar of the entry step credits forward.

Start Here

Discovery Session

$500

90-minute structured operations interview, a map of your current workflow, and a written summary of pain points. Credited in full toward a Readiness Assessment within 30 days.

The Diagnostic

Readiness Assessment

$3,500 up to 25 staff
$5,000 26–60 staff / multi-site

Operations scorecard, compliance-risk findings, documentation review, workflow gap analysis, supervision review — and a prioritized roadmap, in 2–3 weeks.

Systematize

Workflow Platform Buildout

from $9,500

Configured boards for intake, authorizations, staffing, documentation, and QA — automations, dashboards, SOPs, training, and 30 days of support. Billed in thirds.

Full Install

Full Operations Buildout

from $18,500

The platform plus policy & SOP library, documentation templates, staff training rollout, QA installation, and leadership coaching through go-live. Billed in thirds.

Sustain

Operations Support Retainer

$1,750/mo
$3,000/mo executive tier

Monthly workflow updates, dashboard review, documentation QA, and — at the executive tier — fractional clinical-operations advisory. Three-month minimum.

Enable

Workshops & Templates

$1,500–$5,000 per workshop
$997–$2,997 template licenses

Staff and leadership training per agency, and de-identified policy, SOP, and workflow template libraries with walkthrough videos.

À La Carte & Specialty Services

For agencies that need one capability without the full engagement. Sold alongside or after the core path — several are already included in the buildout tiers.

Accreditation Readiness Joint Commission / CARF
Standards gap analysis, mock survey with findings report, corrective roadmap, and survey-week preparation — led by executives who have taken an agency through accreditation twice.
$7,500 gap analysis + mock survey
$15,000–$25,000 full readiness program
Policy & Procedure Development
Custom policies aligned to your services, payers, and licensure category — operationalized, not shelf documents — delivered with an implementation checklist.
$2,500 single service line
$7,500 full agency P&P manual
Credentialing & Enrollment Support
Organizational payer and LME-MCO enrollment applications, clinician credentialing file builds with clinical documentation review, and ongoing credential-renewal tracking.
from $1,500 organizational enrollment
$350 per clinician file · $500/mo tracking
Fractional Clinical Operations Executive
Ph.D.-level, accreditation-tested executive leadership for agencies that need a clinical-operations function but cannot fund the full-time hire.
$3,000/mo advisory
$5,000/mo embedded
Data, Outcomes & Agency Analysis
Client-progress and KPI analysis with doctoral-level interpretation — written reports suitable for boards, payers, and accreditation files.
$2,500 per quarterly report
Subject-Matter Expert Consultation
On-demand expert consultation: payer policy interpretation, service-definition questions, program design review, leadership and board advisory.
$300/hr · 2-hr minimum
$2,000 day rate
Special Reports & Feasibility Studies
Written analyses on defined questions — new service-line feasibility, geographic expansion, staffing-model comparison, continue/restructure/exit studies.
$2,500–$5,000

Milestone billing on all buildouts — engagement, mid-build, delivery — matched to how Medicaid agencies actually cash-flow. Specialty engagements are scoped in writing before work begins; no custom scopes below published floors.

Subject-Matter Expertise

The Agency Standard was not designed in a conference room. Its systems run today inside a Joint Commission–accredited behavioral health organization of roughly sixty personnel — eight credentialed sites, four managed-care networks, multiple states, and multiple federal and school-system relationships.

Medicaid waiver & managed-care systems — service definitions, authorizations, and payer requirements across LME/MCO networks, 1915(c)/(i) waivers, and Tailored Plan operations, navigated daily for 650+ contracted service line-items.
Accreditation & survey readiness — two Joint Commission cycles led from the provider's chair, initial and re-accreditation, all services surveyed.
Clinical documentation & quality assurance — doctoral-level documentation standards, PQI programs, audit-ready record trails, and a 24-hour documentation standard enforced by automation.
Credentialing & provider enrollment — complete organizational LME enrollment applications and clinician credentialing functions built from zero, twice.
Supervision architecture — board-approved supervision systems spanning eleven clinical teams, with twenty formal supervision contracts and a supervisor-of-supervisors structure.
Workflow engineering & AI-supported operations — monday.com-based intake, authorization, staffing, and QA systems with clinician-governed, compliance-aligned automation.
Behavioral health program design — RB-BHT, Specialized Consultation Services, outpatient, waiver, and school-based service lines built, staffed, and operated.
Policy transition & regulatory navigation — real-time operational response to state policy change, including the RB-BHT transition now facing LCMHC-led providers.

Leadership & Team

Travis S. Andrews, Ph.D., LCMHC-S, CRC
Co-Founder & President

Clinician-executive and founder of two behavioral health organizations, including a Joint Commission–accredited multi-site provider. Doctoral training in rehabilitation counseling and counselor education; faculty appointments at five universities; two decades spanning direct service, clinical supervision, Medicaid operations, accreditation leadership, and program design. Travis leads assessment, accreditation, and clinical-operations strategy.

Cheryl L. Andrews, Ph.D., LCMHC-S, LPC-S, CRC, ACS
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Chief Operating Officer of an accredited multi-site behavioral health organization, with multi-state clinical licensure and supervisory credentials. Cheryl's strengths run through the operational core of this work: clinical supervision systems, documentation quality, compliance operations, staff onboarding and accountability structures, and the day-to-day discipline that keeps an agency audit-ready. She leads implementation quality and operational design.

The Delivery Team
Platform Engineering · Implementation · Client Onboarding

Platform & AI-systems engineering: monday.com workflow architecture, automation design, billing and eligibility-verification workflows, authorization tracking, CRM and dashboard builds, and AI-assisted documentation-quality tooling — with prior builds including the operations system for a national clinical lifestyle-medicine program, and the live platform running inside our own accredited organization. Engineered in production, not in a demo.

Practice operations & implementation: referral triage across waiver and outpatient service lines, client enrollment and consent workflows, scheduling coordination with managed-care care managers, and caseload operations on the platform itself — implementation led by operators who run these exact processes daily, including national clinical-program operations and client-conversion experience.

Consultants configure software or leave recommendations. This team installs operations — and runs the agency the systems came from.

Start with the Readiness Assessment

Tell us about your agency — services, size, and what keeps breaking. You'll hear back from a founder, not an intake queue. If an assessment isn't the right fit, we'll tell you that too.

Request an Assessment