Column Health is a healthcare company delivering more humane, technology enabled, outpatient substance use disorder treatment.
Column Health was founded by healthcare experts and clinicians to address an unmet need in the addiction space for patients suffering from the disease of addiction – humane, ongoing, comprehensive and community based outpatient treatment.
• Successful already: We have three clinics operating at a profit in Boston metro with plans to expand in 2017 across Massachusetts and into two additional states supported by our payor partners.
• Central business office: We have extensive expertise setting up CBO’s enabling rapid scaling across the country with greater operational effectiveness and lower costs.
• Revenue cycle specialists: our team has deep expertise in optimizing the revenue cycle including rapid payor credentialing and enrollment for fast clinic set up and cash acceleration.
• Multi-modal care to treat all addiction types: Our sites are not Suboxone only, nor do we leverage Methadone in our treatment. Our treatment model leverages robust psychotherapy in concert with pharmacotherapy, medication management and care coordination. As such, our model is capable of addressing a range of addiction types ranging from gambling to opioid based, to alcohol based, to eating related disorders, and can adapt over time to changing demographics, new drug types and new demands in the market.
• Payor advantages: We accept all major insurance. And because we cover the entire episode of outpatient treatment we’re able to leverage our expertise in bundled payment reimbursement, and are the first in this space to successfully establish lucrative bundled payment contracts with several of the largest national payors. These provide guaranteed, lucrative fixed payments per month per patient – a valuable source of guaranteed patient volume in new clinics.
• Outcomes driven: We leverage highly customized software to track and improve outcomes over time.
We are inviting you to help us tackle the epidemic at hand.
We facilitate full recovery from mental illness and substance use disorders; enabling stability and self-actualization for our patients and team members.
We restore hope to individuals and families suffering from these debilitating illnesses through evidence-based world-class treatment and education, while conducting industry-leading research and analysis to continuously improve the efficacy of treatment and service delivery.
We leverage highly customized software enablement and data analytics to track outcomes, streamline operations, and improve care coordination across all our sites.
Our outcomes are significantly better than seen across the industry and our loss to treatment is extraordinarily low as well.
We have opened three successful clinics in our first year and half and have the backing of two of the nations largest behavioral health payors to open 12 more in 2017.
Deep knowledge in and expertise in provider based healthcare strategy and operations
Founding partner of Triple Canopy Advisors healthcare strategy consulting firm
Extensive experience developing physician practices, central business offices, staffing models and best practice operations
Extensive experience structuring and negotiating bundled payment models and risk sharing reimbursement models
MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Masters from Stanford University, BS in Biology Miami University, member MENSA society
Expertise in software enabled solutions for physicians, and opioid addiction care models
Faculty at Tufts school of medicine
MD, MA, academic psychiatrist and medical informatician
Founded and advises medical technology related startups
A licensed buprenorphine prescriber and works at buprenorphine clinics in Boston and has an established patient roster