PMPI TeleMed

Your Telehealth Partner

We are Psychiatric Medical Practitioners, Inc., a medical group specializing in delivering psychiatric care to underserved and remote populations through secure video conferencing.

With over two decades of trusted care in California, we’re now bringing our telepsychiatry expertise to 17 new states.

We bring specialists to underserved metro and hard-to-reach rural clinics across the United States. Patients can receive behavioral and mental health services through telehealth in clinic settings without having to travel long distances to receive specialty care. Primary care and behavioral health teams gain convenient, remote access to experienced psychiatric providers when they need it most.

Using Technology to Integrate Psychiatry with
Primary Care and Behavioral Health

Why Partner with Us?

When partnering with us, clinics gain access to our extensive experience and expertise. We supply and install the necessary equipment for free and provide a secure encrypted HIPAA-compliant connection. We provide ongoing support which includes clinical oversight, telehealth training for office staff, and efforts to enhance communication, seamlessly integrating into your team. Together, we facilitate coordinated patient care, delivering top-tier telepsychiatry and teletherapy services in collaboration with primary care clinicians and behavioral health departments, ensuring the highest quality evidence-based care.

Quality Control and Performance Tracking

We conduct comprehensive data analysis, leveraging various metrics including peer reviews, patient and clinic staff surveys, and no-show/canceled appointment data. This enables us to meticulously monitor service quality, enhance productivity, and ensure optimal clinical efficiency. Our commitment to continuous improvement is rooted in the insights derived from these key performance indicators, fostering a culture of excellence in the delivery of our services.

Why Telehealth?

The Telemedicine Development Act of 1996 facilitated the integration of technology into medical treatment by removing economic and legal obstacles. Telehealth, considered a supplementary tool in medical practice, addresses accessibility challenges for individuals in rural areas due to shortages of specialized health providers and long travel distances to mental health services. By providing teletherapy directly to clinics and integrating it into traditional medical systems, our approach aligns with studies emphasizing its effectiveness in psychiatric evaluations, interventions, diagnoses, medication management, and psychotherapy, ensuring seamless team-based coordination of patient care.

What Our Partner Clinics Are Saying

“In addition to our clinical team, as assigned to us, PMPI provides us with the whole clinical support staff through their corporate headquarters in Bakersfield, California, that assist the providers with prior authorizations, disability paperwork, etc., for our clients. They also ensure that we meet or exceed the community standards of practice of psychiatric medication management services for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQs) and have internal processes for Quality Assurance monitoring of their panel”.

“I am writing in support of PMPI, for the great partnership we have maintained since 2008. With our partnership we have been able to support and stabilize client’s psychiatric medication management by Board Certified/Eligible Psychiatrist and/or (DNP), and/or (PMHNP-BC). Our underserved community continues to be in desperate need of access to mental health services, education, quality care, and patient-centered/culturally competent care. Our mission is to provide care to the most vulnerable populations and improve the quality of life for our underserved community, can only be achieve with the partnerships we build. Thus, PMPI is an integral and important part of services our FQHC provides to each of our clients/families. As partners we have been able to tackle these immense needs in mental health and continue to be a resource to our community”.

“Services currently rendered by Psychiatric Medical Practitioners, Inc. (PMPI) to our FQHC are psychiatric medication management services for children and adult populations at eight of our health centers, expanding soon to additional sites. We are a Federally Qualified Health Center and licensed primary care clinic providing medical, dental, optometry and specialty care including behavioral health for underserved communities in our service area. Our contract with PMPI has allowed us to expand psychiatric services in Tulare, Kings, and Fresno counties. Service expansion has included the addition of PMPI providers over the last five years, and we are planning to further expand services under this contract in the next few months”.

Patient Surveys & Testimonials

David

“I have not had any symptoms since starting treatment. Doctor was very nice, smart and very helpful”

– Second survey after 3 treatments

Joyce

“I have PTSD, racing mind, anxiety, stress, fear, panic: My Doctor listens to me, helps calm me”

Andrew

“Got in for treatment of Depression and Anxiety, and Dr. changed my meds. Dr. Bello is amazing”

Carmen

“In for Anxiety and Depression, we were on the same page (Do you expect anything different from your visits? ) No, I would give a 5/5 for the visit”.

The testimonials here are based on real patient feedback collected through our surveys. Names and images have been changed to protect patient privacy.

PMPI in Numbers & Trending Up

21+

Years in Business

71+

Partner Sites

10+

EMR Platforms

3500+

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