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MedOp vs Behavioral Health EHRs

Generic charting with your specialty’s name on the template — versus a record built for the session clock.

The behavioral-health practice-management category (SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Valant and similar) is mature, self-serve and month-to-month, with subscription prices that start low and grow with metered add-ons: claims, statements, texting, telehealth, e-prescribing and payment processing at roughly 3.1% plus $0.30. What none of the six incumbents we reviewed in September 2026 documents is the machinery a behavioral-health practice is audited on — psychotherapy minute-band enforcement from the session clock, Collaborative Care registries and time logs, or 42 CFR Part 2 disclosure accounting. Absence of documentation is not proof of absence; it is what a buyer can verify.

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Feature-by-feature comparison

CapabilityMedOpBehavioral Health EHRs
Time-based psychotherapy codingEncounter timer → CPT minute-band enforcement with a 90837 audit-defence path; the code is derived from the clock, not typedCodes selected by the clinician or biller from a list; timer-driven band enforcement not documented by the incumbents reviewed
Collaborative Care (CoCM)Care registry, care-manager time log, psychiatric consult review, CoCM codes with mutual exclusivity enforced in the timerNot documented by SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Valant, Alleva, Kipu or the legacy PM/EHR suites reviewed
42 CFR Part 2Consent-scoped disclosure, provenance flag, disclosure accounting export; cross-line containment proven by testNot documented by the general behavioral-health suites reviewed; addiction-treatment specialists very likely handle Part 2 in some form and are not claimed to lack it
Measurement-based carePHQ-9, GAD-7, PHQ-2, C-SSRS in the chart; response/remission and screening-coverage reports for value-based contractsScreening instruments commonly available; value-based coverage reporting varies
Ambient documentationBuilt in for every clinician; SOAP, DAP and BIRP output; no task fee — its speech-to-text and AI usage passed through at exact costAvailable as an add-on or bundled scribe on several platforms; per-note or per-seat pricing is common
AI front office and billing43 agents in the live registry: prior-auth packages drafted, denials scored before submission, appeals drafted for signature, recall and outreach drafted — a person approves eachReminders and basic automation are standard; agentic prior-auth, denial-appeal and receptionist work not documented across the category
More than one line of businessBehavioral health plus aesthetics or therapy on one patient record, same priceOne line per system; an integrated practice runs two systems with two records for the same person
Pricing modelPublished: a flat $169 per provider per month list at every practice size ($149 for a practice’s first 12 months if it signs by 30 June 2027), everything included, AI receptionist too, with no per-call fee; an AI line of vendor usage at exact cost plus a fee per completed task, under a monthly cap you set; 0% platform fee on payments — the practice keeps its own merchant account and rateSubscription plus metered add-ons is the category norm — per claim, per statement, per text, per e-prescriber, per telehealth seat — and card processing resold at a markup
Contract termsMonth to month, always; zero price escalator for the life of the subscription with published price history; free one-click full export guaranteed within one business day; no gag clause; no licence over practice or patient dataMonth-to-month and self-serve cancellation are the category norm here; a warranted export SLA and a written zero-escalator are not

Why practices choose MedOp

MedOp is a system of record built deep for behavioral health rather than a template pack. The encounter timer drives CPT minute-band enforcement (90832 / 90834 / 90837) with an audit-defence path for 90837, the highest-audit-risk code in the specialty. Collaborative Care (99492 / 99493 / 99494) has its own registry and care-manager time log. Part 2 records are consent-scoped with disclosure accounting aligned to the 2024 Final Rule. Outcome measures — PHQ-9, GAD-7, PHQ-2, C-SSRS crisis alerting — live in the chart with value-based coverage reporting. And a practice that also runs a med spa keeps one patient record instead of two systems.

Common questions

Is MedOp more expensive than a behavioral-health EHR subscription?

It can be. Incumbent subscriptions start at a few hundred dollars a month for a three-clinician practice and add charges for claims, statements, texts, telehealth, e-prescribing and payment processing. MedOp is $507 a month at list ($447 in the first year under the launch offer) for the same practice with all of those and the AI receptionist included, no per-call fee and a 0% platform fee on payments, plus the AI line: AI vendor usage at exact cost and a fee per completed task. With that line added, the all-in bill may be the same as today or higher; the case rests on the hours saved and the revenue recovered.

Can MedOp import my history from my current behavioral-health platform?

Yes. Self-serve CSV import covers patients, appointments and insurance today, and a records import over FHIR R4 or uploaded C-CDA files — previewed, applied only after a second administrator approves, and fully reversible — is built and switched on per practice. Adapters for specific behavioral-health platforms are on the roadmap for Q2 2027. Onboarding and migration are free. Our first production migration moved 2,868 patients, 18,037 appointments and 11,468 active medications.

Do you support supervision, group practices and multiple locations?

Yes. Additional locations are included at no charge, roles are enforced at every write, and the per-provider price is the same flat $169 list ($149 in a practice’s first 12 months under the launch offer) whether the group has two providers or fifty.

Comparison based on publicly available information as of September 2026; where a capability is not publicly documented we say so rather than claim it is absent; competitor capabilities may have changed.

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