United Behavioral Health Consulting
Optimize your organization with transformative, efficient and innovative solutions tailored for the Behavioral Health space
About UBHC
Our Vision
At UBHC, our vision is to be the leading consulting firm in community behavioral health. We aim to achieve this by constantly innovating and providing exceptional services that exceed our clients' expectations by keeping ahead of the trends and technology of behavioral health, so you can focus on your clients and outcomes
Our Team
Our United Behavioral Health Consultants have broad and extensive experience in the public and private sector, including; policy, operations, IT / Data solutions, budgetary, funding source utilization, payer support, audits, and quality management-- anchored in clinical acumen and successful client outcomes
Expert BH Consulting Services
We provide tailored solutions to help you meet your organizational goals and achieve success.
Consulting Services for PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR CLIENTS
Strategy & Implementation
Payment Reform & Financial
Our Strategy Consulting services are anchored in our program design and implementation expertise and help build a roadmap for meeting mandates, deadlines, and revenue/profit targets while ensuring equitable access to the highest level of behavioral health care.
We combine the needs of now, while maintaining planned strategic pivots to ensure programmatic viability in the ever changing landscape of behavioral health
Payment Reform & Financial
Payment Reform & Financial
Our Finance Consulting services help optimize budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning, specific to your space and populations served, while maintaining compliance with funding source requirements, and optimizing funding utilization though braided funding and mapping.
We work with you to manage financial strategy that fits your organizational needs, meets requirements, and helps you achieve fiscal sustainability and your financial goals.
Contracts, Procurement & RFP
Our Contracting, Procurement, & RFP Consulting services provide strategic guidance and support in the full lifecycle of the contracting space.
Our team's expertise in behavioral health contracting can provide services including; contract development, RFP/RFQ/RFI response submission, scope of work, negotiations, monitoring /compliance, and implementation planning for public or private behavioral health organizations.
Operations & Implementation
Our Operations Consulting services help large government organizations, community-based providers, small businesses or small practice groups optimize their behavioral health operations and increase efficiency.
We work with you to identify areas of improvement, streamline processes, and help your organization run more effectively--without negatively impacting employee morale or leaving staff feeling alienated.
Automation, AI, & Technology
Human Resources and Recruitment
Our Technology Consultants help you properly leverage technology and thoughtfully and appropriately implement AI, to improve operations and increase revenue without compromising outcomes.
We work with you to identify technology solutions that fit your needs--to help keep you ahead of the curve, and not chasing from behind. The healthcare and AI spaces are both changing and evolving rapidly.
Human Resources and Recruitment
Human Resources and Recruitment
Our HR Consulting and BH recruiting services help attract, retain and develop talent. Our team has worked BH experience to know what it takes to succeed in the sector, we find what will work best for your current need.
We can also work with you to develop policies and procedures that maintain compliance, and align with your needs, while keeping your P&Ps consistent and in compliance with contractual & regulatory requirements
Utilization & Performance
Forensic and Justice Involved
Utilization & Performance
We can work with you to assess and optimize staffing, productivity, scheduling, caseloads, and service delivery models to improve access, operational efficiency, workforce effectiveness, and financial performance.
Our team utilizes objective, data-driven dashboards for transparent analysis of staffing, productivity, caseloads, and workflows to improve capacity, access, outcomes, and organizational sustainability.
Workforce performance is the key to any BH organization and equitable access to care
Value Based Care
Forensic and Justice Involved
Utilization & Performance
We help behavioral health organizations prepare for and succeed in value-based care environments by aligning clinical operations, quality outcomes, reimbursement strategies, and performance measurement systems.
Services include readiness assessments, payment model design, quality metric development, performance dashboards, care coordination strategies, population health initiatives, and implementation planning to support sustainable value-based reimbursement arrangements.
Forensic and Justice Involved
Forensic and Justice Involved
Forensic and Justice Involved
Few consultants understand both the BH system and the justice system from an operational, financial, and administrative perspective. UBHC is fortunate to have staff who specialize in this cross-sectional multi-disciplinary space.
Our team has deep experience supporting counties, states, healthcare organizations, and community providers in the design, funding, procurement, performance management, and operational oversight of behavioral health services for justice-involved populations.
What you don't know yet could still cost you
California as a National Testing Ground for Behavioral Health Reform-What will it look like in 2028?
For decades, California has served as a proving ground for large-scale healthcare and behavioral health innovation. Initiatives such as Medicaid expansion, Whole Person Care, CalAIM, Behavioral Health Payment Reform, Proposition 1, and the expansion of community-based behavioral health services have attracted national attention and are frequently studied by policymakers across the country.
While every state operates within its own political, fiscal, and regulatory environment, many of the challenges facing California—including behavioral health workforce shortages, homelessness, justice-involved populations, healthcare integration, value-based reimbursement, and accountability for public funding—are challenges being experienced nationwide.
As national conversations continue regarding healthcare reform, behavioral health financing, and Medicaid modernization, organizations that understand and adapt to emerging trends will be better positioned for future success regardless of the policy direction ultimately pursued.
Our experience working within California's evolving behavioral health landscape provides valuable insight into how organizations can prepare for large-scale transformation, navigate uncertainty, and build sustainable systems capable of adapting to future policy changes.
Depending on who wins the next Presidential Election, those policies could be more commonplace.
Have You Considered What You Don't Yet Know?
California's behavioral health system has undergone extraordinary transformation over the past several years.
CalAIM, payment reform, alternative payment methodologies, expanded provider networks, new reimbursement structures, and evolving documentation requirements have created opportunities to improve access and modernize service delivery.
They have also created new risks.
Most organizations are focused on implementation deadlines, service expansion, staffing challenges, and maintaining compliance with rapidly changing requirements. Few have had the opportunity to step back and ask a simple question:
What compliance, financial, or operational risks are we creating today that may not surface for seve
History tells us that major system transformations are often followed by increased oversight, audits, payment reviews, and program integrity efforts.
Some areas that deserve careful attention include:
- Provider role alignment and scope-of-practice utilization
- Documentation consistency across programs and providers
- Reimbursement methodology compliance
- Workforce deployment and staffing models
- Time reporting and workforce accountability
- Contract monitoring and oversight practices
- Data quality and reporting integrity
- Program performance measurement
- Technology and EHR workflow design
In many cases, organizations are not intentionally doing anything wrong. The challenge is that operational practices often evolve faster than policies, oversight systems, and monitoring frameworks.
What appears reasonable today may be questioned under future audits, reviews, or regulatory guidance.
The organizations best positioned for long-term success will not be those that simply implemented change quickly.
They will be the organizations that periodically evaluate their assumptions, assess risk proactively, strengthen accountability systems, and continuously improve operations.
The question is not:
"Are we compliant today?"
The better question may be:
"What don't we know today that could create risk tomorrow?"
Organizations that ask that question early are often the ones that avoid costly corrective actions, repayment obligations, operational disruption, and service reductions later.
Strong oversight is not about finding problems.
It is about protecting services, supporting providers, ensuring accountability, and preserving access to care for the communities that depend on them.
Don't wait for an audit, a finding, or a funding challenge to identify vulnerabilities.
The best time to assess risk is before someone else does.