Successful.
Designing and delivering effective behavioral health treatment is the best way to satisfy patients and their families, support provider operations and create efficiency for payers.
Successful.
Designing and delivering effective behavioral health treatment is the best way to satisfy patients and their families, support provider operations and create efficiency for payers.
Successful.
Designing and delivering effective behavioral health treatment is the best way to satisfy patients and their families, support provider operations and create efficiency for payers.
Mountain Lake Associates, LLC (MLA) has established a specialized behavioral healthcare network for the treatment of substance use and co-occurring disorders to include mental health and eating disorders that improves quality and lowers cost of care. Through our specialized and standardized approach to treating substance-use disorders and co-occurring disorders, patients receive better care and achieve improved outcomes.
MLA aligns the activities of payers, providers and government agencies around a standard of care that empowers them to coordinate and deliver valuable and effective care for patients. Providers benefit from expert guidance on structuring relationships with federal agencies and the third-party payers who serve them.
Our Solutions
We help federal third-party payers, government agencies and local treatment providers achieve the outcomes that they all seek for their patients. By structuring relationships, standardizing care and monitoring service delivery, as well as providing billing and payment services, MLA ensures that all stakeholders in the system achieve their goals.
Most importantly, patients and families derive the benefit of a fully coordinated delivery system. MLA employs a best-practice framework, along with a comprehensive set of tools and services, to optimize treatment of substance-use disorders and co-occurring disorders. Providers that partner with MLA use procedures and technology that we have developed to deliver standardized care including:
Superior case management, from inpatient detoxification through outpatient support.
Counseling to decrease anxiety and increase resiliency.
FDA approved, anti-addictive medication to reduce cravings.
Active monitoring using smartphone-enabled technology to improve compliance and help patients and physicians monitor progress toward more healthy and productive lives.
Meditation practice as a co-adjuvant therapy to reduce anxiety.
Superior case management, from inpatient detoxification through outpatient support.
Counseling to decrease anxiety and increase resiliency.
FDA approved, anti-addictive medication to reduce cravings.
Active monitoring using smartphone-enabled technology to improve compliance and help patients and physicians monitor progress toward more healthy and productive lives.
Meditation practice as a co-adjuvant therapy to reduce anxiety.
Together, these services create an end-to-end treatment modality for chemical dependency in one place. Better access makes it easier for patients to engage in and sustain their recovery and connect with essential wrap-around services, such as housing, employment and transportation.
MLA helps providers empower patients to avoid the pain and burden of relapse and readmission to care.
Our Network
Our specialty healthcare network makes it easier for commercial providers and the government to do business with each other—and to deliver quality care to patients. To create this network, MLA:
- Partners with federal payers, third-party administrators, and treatment providers to deliver behavioral health care (specialized substance use disorder and co-occurring disorder care to include mental health and eating disorders) in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Recruits and engages top quality treatment providers on behalf of federal payers, providers, and their third-party payer representatives to expand access to high-quality care.
- Provides detailed standard operating procedures, manuals, and provider training along with state-of-the-art technology for participating clinics to raise and certify readiness at the new standard of patient care.
- Employs innovative, evidence based, integrative health techniques to promote behavioral change.
- Ensures the timely flow of accurate administrative and payment data between payers and providers via existing commercial provider contracts, resulting in prompt payment for covered and authorized medical services.
- Ensures compliance with federal standards by monitoring provider documentation and billing.
MLA has a network of 40 clinics operating in 20 states.
About MLA
Mountain Lake Associates (MLA) is as an administrative services organization (ASO) providing specialty services that improve delivery systems of our partner providers which in turn address and treat behavioral health issues (alcohol and substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders to include mental health and eating disorders) for patients receiving federal healthcare benefits.
MLA ensures that care is available and flexible in targeted areas of need.
MLA is a VA-certified service-disabled veteran-owned small business.
MLA is a SOC 2 Certified company.
Our People
Our core management team has deep business, government, healthcare, and pharmaceutical market experience. This experience informs MLA's specialized approach to treating substance-use disorder and motivates the company’s desire to share these solutions with more patients and providers across the country.
W. Scott Gould
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Gould is the former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, former Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield, and a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group.
Dr. Raul Perea-Henze
MD, MPH, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Perea-Henze is a global health physician. He served as Deputy Mayor for Health & Human Services for the City of New York and as Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He developed innovative public-private partnerships at Pfizer, Merck, PwC and BA&H.
Christopher R. Wilkins
Senior Vice President for Business Development
Mr. Wilkins is a nationally recognized expert in operational protocols as well as administrative and clinical practices associated with substance-use disorder care for veterans.
Derrick L. Ellis
Senior Vice President for Operations
Mr. Ellis is an expert in administrative and behavioral healthcare practices, integrated data and systems analysis, and financial management. He is an operational expert in driving organizational success through strategic planning and quality assurance geared to increasing access to care for veterans their family members.
Ryan Wood
Vice-President, Provider Relations
Mr. Wood is a seasoned Behavioral Health Industry Executive with a background in Admissions, Outreach & Strategic Partnerships. He is a recognized expert in facilitating access of Veterans to behavioral health care.
Advisory Board
Hon Lt. Gen Jim Peake, MD
Former Secretary of the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs, former Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, and Lieutenant General, retired..
Hon Anthony Principi
Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and former CEO of QVCM
Advisors
Ms. Meghan Flanz
Former Assistant Secretary, Human Resources and Acting General Counsel
Department of Veteran Affairs
Mr. John Medve
Former Acting Assistant Secretary, Enterprise Integration
Department of Veteran Affairs
Partners
Patient care is a top priority in our approach to treating substance-use disorder. To capture the voice of the patient in the treatment process and gain new insights into efficient and effective care delivery, we partner with a variety of established technology firms specializing in digital apps for the substance-use disorder community that are HIPPA compliant. MLA can work with both proprietary and non-proprietary (open source) models, as well as to provide a variety of hosting options from which to enable patient care that meets provider needs and standards.
NOTE: MLA is currently working with Steel Patriot and scheduled to be SOC2/HITEACH certified in 2023.
