In some states, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs) must have a collaborating physician to work directly with patients. Unfortunately, PMHNPs often have to find a collaborator on their own and incur high costs to maintain this relationship.

At Grow Therapy, we understand that this can lead to a frustrating experience, which is why we are proud to offer a collaborating physician matching program at a discounted rate through our partnership with Collaborating Docs.

Learn more about this partnership below.

Once you sign up through the Collaborating Docs partnership page, you'll be connected with an experienced collaborating physician licensed in your state. You'll be able to work out the details of your agreement with your collaborator and then sign the collaborative agreement. Providers are typically matched within two weeks, so please be on the lookout for an email in the first 1-2 weeks to ensure you can start seeing clients on the Grow Therapy platform as soon as possible. Once you have the agreement, upload it using the collaborative agreement upload form.

Due to compliance and HIPAA standards, the collaborating physician (CP) is not allowed access to your provider portal.

Notes should be shared directly with your CP. It is up to the two of you to decide how you'd like to share notes. This can be done during meetings via screen share, by downloading the notes from the dashboard, and sharing them with the CP, etc.

You are free to find a collaborating physician outside of the Grow Therapy and Collaborating Docs partnership. If you have an outside agreement, upload it using the collaborative agreement upload form.