Therapy Session Coding
Correct time thresholds and add-on codes for individual, group, and family therapy. 90834 vs 90837 handled accurately every time.
About Cosentus
Cosentus is a healthcare revenue cycle management company combining specialty-trained experts with AI-native technology. With 25+ years of experience, we manage the full revenue cycle for behavioral health practices in Irvine and across California through our SiMed division. From coding to collections, every step is connected through Zeus AI, which runs 23 modules, and managed by people who stay in behavioral health.
98%
Net Collection Rate
48hrs
Charge Lag
99%
Clean Claim Rate
<15%
AR Over 90 Days
Local Expertise
Irvine and the broader Orange County region have seen growing demand for behavioral health services, with psychiatry, therapy, intensive outpatient programs, and medication management all expanding in response to community needs. Major systems like Providence St. Joseph, MemorialCare, Hoag, and Kaiser operate in the market, alongside a growing number of private behavioral health practices and group practices. Behavioral health billing in Orange County is shaped by session limit tracking, authorization management, and the diverse payer requirements that come with commercial, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and EAP coverage.
Cosentus, through our SiMed division, provides full-cycle behavioral health billing and revenue cycle management built for the complexity behavioral health practices face daily. Our team handles coding for psychiatry, therapy, IOP/PHP, medication management, and telehealth. From session limit tracking through final payment posting, every step is managed by people who work exclusively in behavioral health billing.
What We Manage for Behavioral Health Practices in Irvine
- Behavioral health coding: psychiatry, therapy, IOP/PHP, medication management, telehealth
- Session limit tracking and authorization management by payer
- Eligibility verification across commercial, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and EAP
- Claim scrubbing and same-day submission to 1,400+ payers
- Denial management with root cause review
- Appeals with clinical evidence and payer escalation
- AR follow-up and aging management
- Live analytics by provider, modality, payer, and denial category
Complete Behavioral Health Revenue Cycle
Psychiatric & Medication Management
Capture both psychiatric and E/M components when clinically appropriate. No missed revenue on dual-service visits.
IOP & PHP Billing
Manage payer-specific bundling and per-diem vs per-service differences. Each payer has its own rules. We track all of them.
Telehealth Billing
Correct place-of-service codes and modifier usage across payers. Rules change often. Our team stays current.
Authorization Management
Tracking ahead of time, submission, and follow-up on every authorization. Expirations caught before they become write-offs.
Crisis & Add-On Services
Accurate capture of crisis interventions, prolonged services, and behavioral health add-on codes.
Patient Billing & Support
Cindy handles patient balances empathetically in over 50 languages. Behavioral health patients need clear, sensitive communication.
Ai AGENT: CINDYAnalytics & Reporting
Dashboards showing revenue per provider, session type, authorization status, and denial patterns.
Why Local Knowledge Matters
We Know California Payers
Orange County behavioral health practices deal with commercial carriers, Medicare, Medi-Cal managed care, Kaiser, and EAP programs, each with different session limits, authorization requirements, and documentation standards. The SiMed team tracks these requirements for every major payer in the Orange County market, so sessions are authorized and claims are paid.
Dedicated to Behavioral Health
SiMed by Cosentus is dedicated exclusively to behavioral health billing. Our team understands every modality: psychiatry, individual therapy, group therapy, IOP, PHP, medication management, and telehealth. We track session limits, manage authorizations, and code every encounter with the specificity this specialty requires.
National Reach. Local Focus.
Cosentus is headquartered in Irvine. Your SiMed team knows the local health systems, the community behavioral health landscape, and the payer behaviors that shape your revenue. National infrastructure, local roots.
Frequently Asked Questions
Know Exactly Where Your Revenue Is Going.
Wherever your revenue cycle needs to go, we can help.
- STEP 1
Connect
Tell us about your organization, your specialty and where revenue is getting stuck.
- STEP 2
Diagnose
We run a No-Cost Financial MRI on your revenue cycle and show you exactly what it finds.
- STEP 3
Recover
Together we fix the causes, and the revenue you were missing starts arriving.