Conflicts and/or Commercial Interests Disclosure Statement
The model and software demonstrated in this training have been created as a result of a collaboration between the Independent Mental Health Practices Alliance (IMHPA), Mentor Research Institute (MRI) and Private Practice Cloud (PPC).
Dr. Michael Conner has been involved in research to develop models and technology that support and protect private practice psychotherapy since 1991. He was a leader in creation of the first mental health professionals’ independent practice association (IPA) in the country. Dr. Conner leads design, creation and online implementation of a software system to support innovative payment contracts with Healthplans. Group contracts supported by this software allow early career and established psychotherapists to demonstrate the measurable quality and value of their psychotherapy services. Therapists can monitor their own measurement data. Payers see only data for the contract group. Change measurement by individual therapists data can improve their deliberate practice skills. Group performance data can generate referrals to a and increase professionals’ income.
Dr. Conner declares that he has been a member of IMHPA (which previously was called AMHA-OR. and a Board member of MRI for since 1996; he has majority ownership interest in PPC.
IMHPA, MRI, and PPC each have commercial interest in the software presented in this training. This unavoidable overlap of interests exists because the software is the first and only system created to support the group contracting model being presented.
Potential conflicts of interests are managed by independent board oversight, disclosure statements and transparency with IMHPA members who choose to participate in contracts.