Your financial prep guide for APA Annual Meeting 2026
The APA Annual Meeting runs May 16-20 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Psychiatry has unique financial dynamics: high demand, evolving reimbursement, and a wide split between insurance-based and cash-pay practices. Sorso is not an exhibitor, sponsor, or speaker at this event. This is an independent prep guide for psychiatry practice owners.
The CFO read
Psychiatry practice owners face a strategic choice that other specialties do not: drop insurance entirely or build a leveraged in-network model. Both can work. Neither works by accident. Most practices we audit are running a hybrid model that maximizes neither side, and they wonder why the margin keeps compressing. Before APA, model both pure paths against your current state. The numbers usually point clearly to one direction.
— Stanislav Sukhinin, CFA · Founder, Sorso
Why this matters for your bottom line
Psychiatry has the widest gap in outpatient medicine between insurance reimbursement and cash-pay rates. Practices that have not modeled both paths often default to the wrong one for their market.
Telepsychiatry permanently changed the cost structure of mental health practices. Practices that built hybrid models with disciplined provider scheduling tend to run materially higher revenue per provider than office-only peers.
APP and therapist supervision extends capacity. Practices with structured collaborative care models can serve more patients per psychiatrist, but only when the supervisory billing and compensation are set up correctly.
Measurement-based care is becoming a contracting requirement with several payers. Practices that have not built outcome tracking infrastructure are at risk of losing in-network status or rate parity.
What to look for
Practice management sessions on cash-pay vs. insurance models with real revenue and overhead comparisons
Telepsychiatry workflow and reimbursement sessions, especially around state licensure and cross-state practice
Collaborative care and integrated behavioral health billing (CoCM codes 99492-99494, BHI 99484)
Workforce sessions on hiring and retaining child, geriatric, and addiction psychiatrists
Measurement-based care implementation and the tools that support payer reporting requirements
Practice consolidation and PE activity in mental health services
Financial prep checklist
Review these before you go.
Run revenue per provider hour for both insurance-based and any cash-pay services you offer
Audit no-show and late-cancellation rates by provider and by visit type
Map your payer mix and the average reimbursement per 99214 across your top 5 payers
Walk through telehealth utilization and the revenue split between in-person and virtual
Sketch your therapist and APP supervision model: revenue contribution and supervising-physician time required
Compare provider productivity against APA practice survey data
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Founder of Sorso and a CFA charterholder. Before Sorso, Stan spent 19 years in corporate finance at institutions including UniCredit and Société Générale — managing a $450M loan portfolio and making senior partner at a major mezzanine lender by 29 — then built a fractional CFO firm exclusively for outpatient healthcare clinics.