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For referring providers

A handoff you can stand behind.

Secure referrals, a warm phone handoff from a clinician within four business hours of admission, and a treatment summary returned to your chart inside five business days. We do not take over your patient’s prescriptions and we do not redisclose without an ROI that names you.

What you get back, and when

Three documents. Each on a clock.

Within 4 business hours of admission

Warm phone handoff

A clinician — not an intake coordinator — calls you to confirm the client is in care, summarize level of care, and confirm the release scope on file.

Within 5 business days

Treatment summary

A reviewed letter on practice letterhead: diagnoses (DSM-5), level of care, goals, progress to date, and recommendations. Director-signed.

Within 7 business days of discharge

Discharge summary + continuing-care plan

Final diagnoses, treatment course, response to care, and a continuing-care plan with explicit follow-up cadence. Faxed or sent via secure portal.

Diagnostic & assessment tools

Instruments your chart will recognize.

Every assessment, every treatment plan, and every discharge summary references the same validated instruments you already use. Nothing proprietary, nothing improvised.

  • CIWA-ArAlcohol withdrawal severity
  • COWSOpioid withdrawal severity
  • DSM-5Diagnostic criteria
  • ASAM PPC-3Level-of-care placement
  • PHQ-9Depression screen
  • GAD-7Anxiety screen
  • AUDITAlcohol-use screen
  • DAST-10Drug-use screen
  • C-SSRSSuicide-risk screen
A note on medication management

We coordinate. We don’t take over.

Our LCADCs and LPCs work alongside your medication plan, not around it. The shortest distance from a med question to a med answer is still you.

  • 01Your prescriptions stay yours. We do not initiate, change, or discontinue psychiatric medications.
  • 02Our LCADCs and LPCs document side effects and adherence concerns and forward them to you within one business day.
  • 03For acute medication concerns, our consulting medical director (Dr. Marcus Reed, MD, ABAM) calls you directly.
  • 04If a medication adjustment is clinically indicated, we will say so in writing — but we will not make the change.
Secure referral form

Send your patient our way.

Encrypted submission. We will not transmit PHI back to you over plain email; our response uses the same secure channel or fax.

Primary concern
Joint care examples

What coordination looks like in practice.

Co-occurring

Adult with AUD + GAD

PCP continued SSRI; we ran a 12-week IOP track addressing alcohol use and anxiety triggers in parallel. Treatment summary back at week 5; discharge summary at week 13. SSRI never touched.

Court-referred

DWI 2nd offense — court-aware

Evening IOP scheduled around work; attorney received Compliance-Summary letters at IDRC milestones. PCP received Treatment-Summary letter (separate ROI). No clinical content in court letter.

PCP-identified

Opioid use, ambivalent

PCP flagged escalating prescription opioid use. We completed COWS, ASAM placement, warm handoff to MAT prescriber. Client entered our OP program for behavioral support; PCP-coordinated buprenorphine maintained outside our practice.

Provider FAQ

The questions we get most.

Will you take over my patient’s psychiatric medications?+

No. We are a counseling practice (LCADC, LPC, LSW). We do not prescribe psychiatric medications. Our consulting medical director provides addiction-medicine consultation; he coordinates with you rather than replacing you.

How do I send a referral that contains PHI?+

Use the secure portal form below or our HIPAA-compliant fax line (973) 555-0101. Please do not send PHI by plain email. Encrypted email is acceptable if your system supports it.

How fast do you respond to a referral?+

A clinician calls the patient within one business hour of receipt during business hours, and we call you (with the patient’s consent) within four business hours of admission.

Do you accept 42 CFR Part 2 patients?+

Yes. We are a 42 CFR Part 2 program. Information disclosures require a Part 2-compliant ROI naming each recipient and scope. We will not redisclose without explicit, written re-authorization.

Refer a patient

We will pick up the phone and we will call you back.

For the fastest handoff, call our 24-hour clinical line. For routine referrals, use the secure form or our HIPAA-compliant fax.