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A vetted therapy partner program for physician members.
A confidential clinical channel for the physicians your society represents, built around the realities of medical practice and the specific reasons physicians do not seek care. Vetted clinicians. Member pricing. An intake designed to be safe for a doctor to use.
A vetted therapy partner for the physicians a medical society represents.
This page is for executive directors, membership leads, and physician-wellness committees at state medical societies and specialty associations building a vetted therapy partner program for physician members. If that is you, the rest of this page is the briefing document.
CEREVITY operates as a clinical network with direct relationships between the network, the clinicians, and the partner society. There is no third-party broker layer. Physician members are matched, not first-served. Scheduling and intake run through CEREVITY infrastructure. Care is private-pay and out-of-network, offered at member pricing negotiated through the society, and structured to address the confidentiality concerns physicians specifically carry.
Our clinicians are independent licensed professionals. Many have worked with physicians and understand the culture of medicine, the demands of clinical practice, and the documented reasons doctors avoid seeking mental health care. CEREVITY exists in part because physician burnout and distress are at sustained, well-documented highs while the barriers to physicians getting care, including fears tied to licensing and credentialing, remain largely unaddressed.
Physicians carry some of the highest documented burnout in any profession, and some of the strongest reasons not to seek help.
The reason physician members do not get care is not a lack of need. It is a combination of relentless clinical demand, a culture that rewards self-sacrifice, and real and perceived fears that seeking mental health care could surface in licensing or credentialing. A program for physicians has to be built around those barriers, not in spite of them.
Physicians present with a recognizable profile: chronic burnout that has become baseline, moral injury from practicing within a strained system, depression and anxiety masked by competence, and the specific isolation of being the person everyone else relies on. These are widespread across the membership and frequently untreated.
Generic mental health resources do not account for what makes physicians different: the intensity of clinical schedules, the culture of medicine, and the confidentiality stakes that are higher for a doctor than for almost any other professional. A vetted partner program built for physicians treats those realities as the design problem, including a confidential intake that does not feel like a professional risk to use.
What changes when the program is built around this profile: clinicians experienced with physicians, session formats long enough for real work, member pricing the society negotiates on members' behalf, and a confidential intake designed so a physician can engage without the fear that doing so could affect their license or credentials.
What CEREVITY clinicians treat across a physician membership.
The clinical scope is built for the documented distress physicians carry, not a generic workforce profile.
Chronic burnout
The exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced efficacy that define burnout, sustained across years of clinical practice. Widespread across specialties and frequently treated as normal rather than treated at all.
Moral injury
The distress of practicing within a system that does not let a physician deliver the care they believe in. Distinct from burnout, increasingly recognized, and a frequent driver of physicians leaving medicine.
Depression behind competence
Mood disorders masked by the high functioning that medicine demands. A physician can be acutely depressed and fully operational, which is exactly why it goes unrecognized and untreated.
Anxiety and perfectionism
High-stakes decision-making with no margin for error trains a chronic vigilance that does not switch off. Treatable, and common across the membership.
Second-victim and adverse-event trauma
The aftermath of an adverse outcome, a complication, or a malpractice claim carries a specific clinical weight. Physicians often process it alone, and the program is built to offer a confidential alternative.
Career-stage transitions
Residency to attending, the move into leadership, and the runway to retirement are clinical inflection points for physicians, not only career ones. The isolation around them is treatable.
Confidentiality and licensing fear
For many physicians the fear that seeking care could surface in licensing or credentialing is itself the barrier. A program built around a confidential intake treats that fear as the first thing to solve.
Substance use short of impairment
Use that has become a concern but has not reached the threshold that triggers a physician health program. A member program reaches it earlier and privately, before it becomes a regulatory matter.
Three session formats, each chosen for the work.
Most member programs offer one session length. CEREVITY offers three, because different kinds of clinical work need different amounts of time. The choice is made between the clinician and the physician, not by what a payor will reimburse.
The steady cadence of ongoing therapy. Most clients spend most of their care in this format.
For work that needs more room than a standard hour. Focused work on a specific transition or decision.
For work that needs uninterrupted time to reach resolution within a single session.
Because CEREVITY operates outside the insurance reimbursement model, session length is set by the clinical work, not by what a payor will reimburse. That is the structural reason all three formats can exist on the same network, available to physician members at the pricing the society negotiates.
Ready to scope a physician-member briefing?
Briefings are scoped to your society. We respond personally within 48 business hours with proposed times and any prepared materials relevant to the program you are evaluating, including member pricing and the confidential intake design.
Request a briefing →How a physician member is matched.
Matched, not first-served. Here is the process that produces the match for a physician member.
The eligible individual submits a confidential intake form covering presenting issues, modality preference, professional context, and scheduling parameters. The form is operated by CEREVITY, not by a broker.
Intake is reviewed by CEREVITY's clinical leadership against the network's active capacity, current licensure footprint, and modality availability. This is the step that does not exist in an EAP.
A specific clinician is matched to the physician member based on the review. The physician member receives the match with the clinician's profile, modality, and credentials, plus a direct online scheduling link.
The physician member schedules directly through CEREVITY infrastructure. No phone handoff. First sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days of the match.
Care continues with the matched clinician on the cadence the clinical work requires, in 50-minute, 90-minute, or 3-hour sessions, without an employer-imposed cap.
Capability comparison for Medical Societies.
A vendor evaluation framework on the dimensions that matter when scoping a physician-tier-tier offering for physician members. Both models have a place. They are designed for different populations.
| // Dimension | Typical EAP | Exec-tier platform | CEREVITY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Network model | Broker layer between society and contractor roster | Single-vendor platform, W-2 or contracted pool | Independent clinical network with direct relationships |
| Clinician assignment | First contractor to reply with availability | Algorithmic matching on intake-form inputs | Clinical review by network leadership |
| Intake & scheduling | Phone handoff to clinician's line | App-based intake and scheduling | Network-operated intake, direct online scheduling |
| Session formats | Standard 50-min; capped session counts | Standard 45 to 50-min sessions | 50-min, 90-min, and 3-hr formats, no cap |
| Clinical scope | Acute, broadly applicable concerns | Workforce-wide, executive tier as upsell | Built around Medical Societies presenting issues |
| Modality fit | Generalist talk therapy | Generalist therapy with some specialty | CBT, DBT, psychodynamic, matched at intake |
| Reach | National via roster density | National telehealth, roster variance | All 50 states via telehealth |
| Payment model | Society-sponsored, in-network | Per-employee-per-month seat pricing | Private-pay, out-of-network, partnership agreement |
| Society visibility | Aggregate, broker-mediated | Vendor dashboards with engagement | Administrative reporting only |
| Right fit for | Workforce-wide acute support | Mid-tier ongoing with executive add-on | Medical Societies, end-to-end |
What the society sees, and what it does not.
For a physician-tier-tier channel to function, the participating physician member has to trust that engaging with it does not create visibility into their care. CEREVITY is built around that requirement.
- Confirmation that contracted services were provided to eligible individuals.
- Aggregate utilization at the partnership level, where contractually appropriate.
- Invoicing and eligibility reconciliation.
- Nothing tied to a specific named physician member's clinical content.
- Whether a specific named physician member has scheduled, attended, or engaged.
- What clinical issues are being addressed, or which clinician is assigned.
- Session notes, treatment plans, or diagnostic information.
- Any attendance detail at the individual level.
Clinicians are independent licensed professionals operating under their own licensure and the confidentiality and privacy obligations that attach to it. Protected health information is held within the clinical infrastructure, and the agreements governing it are defined in writing before the partnership goes live.
Clinical records, session content, and individual engagement data sit inside the clinical platform. The administrative layer the partner interacts with is structurally separate from the clinical layer.
Eligibility lists are maintained on the partner side and confirmed at the point of intake. Administering eligibility does not require the partner to receive clinical information back.
A Business Associate Agreement is executed where the partnership structure requires it. The partnership agreement defines administrative reporting scope in writing before going live.
What the first 30 days look like.
The hardest part of a physician-tier-tier partnership is not the contract. It is the period between signature and the first physician member in care.
A 60-minute kickoff with your team and CEREVITY's partnership lead. We confirm the partnership shape, the eligibility model, the administrative reporting scope, and the internal owner. The BAA, where applicable, is executed in this window.
Your team provides the eligible-individual list. CEREVITY confirms it against the network side and establishes the verification path that runs at the point of intake. Only eligibility confirmation flows forward.
CEREVITY provides a confidential, physician-tier-appropriate comms template explaining the benefit, the privacy posture, and how to access intake. Your team adapts it to your voice.
Eligible individuals begin intake on their own cadence. First sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days. By day 30, the partnership is operational and a quarterly review cadence is in place.
The business case for the society.
Three axes an executive director or physician-wellness committee can defend when adding a clinical partner program. The specifics vary by society; the structural argument does not.
Member value and retention.
A confidential, vetted therapy program at member pricing is a concrete reason to join and renew. As physicians weigh the value of membership, a high-quality wellness benefit that addresses their actual distress is a differentiated and frequently cited reason to stay.
Physician-wellness mission.
Physician well-being and burnout are central, stated priorities for medical societies. A vetted therapy partner program that reaches members confidentially is a direct, defensible advance on that mission, not a statement about it.
Workforce and the system.
Burnout drives physicians to cut hours and leave medicine, deepening workforce shortages a society's members feel directly. A program that helps physicians stay well and stay in practice serves both the individual member and the broader system the society represents.
Questions physician members and their teams ask first.
Clinicians in the CEREVITY network are independently licensed professionals operating under their own licensure and the confidentiality and privacy obligations that attach to it. The handling of any protected health information, and the specific agreements that govern it including any Business Associate Agreement, are defined in writing in the partnership agreement before the program goes live, scoped to the society's structure.
No. Administrative reporting only. The society receives confirmation that contracted services were available to eligible members and aggregate utilization where contractually appropriate. The society does not see which named physician scheduled, attended, or engaged, what is being addressed, or which clinician is assigned. Given the licensing and credentialing fears physicians carry, this confidentiality is the precondition for use, and it is contractually scoped before launch.
No. CEREVITY is a complement to the physician health program. The PHP remains the appropriate channel for impairment, regulatory, and monitoring matters. CEREVITY adds a confidential, member-priced channel for everyday and ongoing care that the PHP was never scoped to provide and that many physicians will use precisely because it is separate from it.
The program is structured to be a private, member-accessed therapy channel, separate from any monitoring, reporting, or regulatory function. The intake is designed so a physician can engage confidentially. Clinicians remain bound by their licensure-specific obligations, and CEREVITY does not represent itself as a workaround to any reporting requirement.
No. CEREVITY is private-pay and out-of-network by design. The structure is intentional: it is the only way to deliver the clinical scope, session formats, and confidentiality posture physicians require. Member pricing is negotiated through the society.
Many structures involve the society negotiating member pricing while physicians pay for their own care confidentially, rather than the society bearing per-session cost. The exact structure and member pricing are defined in the briefing, scoped to the membership size and how the society wants to position the program.
First sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days of intake, depending on modality requirements and scheduling parameters.
Through a briefing call. Use the form below or email [PARTNERSHIPS EMAIL] directly. Briefings are scoped to your society; we respond personally within 48 business hours.
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The structural argument on this page is based on the firsthand experience of CEREVITY clinicians who have served on EAP panels, combined with widely-published industry estimates of EAP utilization and Medical Societies-specific data where cited. Specific contractual scopes, including the administrative reporting boundary and the BAA structure, are confirmed in writing in the partnership agreement before any partnership goes live.
