Why Finding a Therapist Is Harder Than Finding a Doctor — Provider Data Dorks, a CertifyOS Podcast

Over 60 million Americans live with a mental health condition, and about six in ten can’t get consistent access to care. Visar Tasimi’s team gets someone into behavioral health care in an average of four days. He’ll tell you supply is only part of the problem. The bigger part is data.

Visar is Senior Vice President of Provider Success and Market Operations at Lucet, where he oversees a network of roughly 60,000 behavioral health providers. Behavioral health breaks the usual assumptions: it is not uncommon for one provider to work for three or four different companies, which multiplies the same record three or four times over and makes all of it harder to keep accurate. In this conversation with Nick Helfrich and Mitch Gorodokin, Visar walks through NavConnect, the work of finding out when a provider is actually free, and the single fix he’d want the whole industry to adopt.