Susana A. Cortés
ORP Services
Order, Referring, and Prescribing (ORP) services in school settings are provided in alignment with California requirements to support access to appropriate behavioral health care and coordinated treatment planning for students. Experience includes working within CYBHI (Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative) frameworks in educational environments, ensuring services are clinically appropriate, medically necessary, and compliant with documentation and claim requirements. This work emphasizes timely coordination of care within schools, accurate clinical assessment, and collaboration with multidisciplinary school teams to support students and families in accessing the appropriate level of behavioral health services.
Order, Referring, and Prescribing (ORP) services play a critical role in school-based mental health systems by ensuring that students can access timely, appropriate, and medically necessary behavioral health care while supporting accurate coordination of services and compliant billing processes. Strong ORP practice is essential for connecting students to care, guiding appropriate service authorization, and maintaining alignment with California behavioral health and CYBHI requirements. Experience creating CYBHI-aligned mental health programs from the ground up strengthens ORP effectiveness, including developing workflows, establishing clinical and operational guidelines, training staff, and ensuring consistent implementation across school sites. This includes building processes that support accurate documentation, compliance, and proper claims submission, while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure students receive the right level of care in a timely and coordinated manner.
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