Valant
Behavioral health EHR and practice management that helps practices Put Growth Into Practice
By Valant · HQ Seattle, US · 4.0/5 verified-buyer score
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Behavioral health practices that need an EHR purpose-built for mental health workflows
- Psychiatry, PMHNP and therapy clinicians wanting documentation, ePrescribing and outcome measures in one system
- IOP and PHP programs managing multi-level treatment scheduling and outcomes
- Practice owners and billing managers who want practice management, billing and optional revenue cycle services together
Ideal size: 5–500 people · Outpatient, IOP or PHP behavioral health practice at any growth stage
Not for
- Primary care, specialty medical or surgical practices outside behavioral health
- Buyers who require published, self-serve list pricing before speaking to sales
- Teams looking for a broad horizontal platform rather than a behavioral-health-specific EHR
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
About 2 months (onboarding-led)
~60 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$0/yr
Starts at $0 · Subscription per provider, billed annually; vendor publishes no list price and quotes plans on request
Implementation Friction
3/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Buyer Score
out of 5 · verified buyers
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Priced per provider per plan; contact vendor for tiers
Add-on costs
- Revenue cycle management (billing) services quoted separately
- Additional features added to an existing subscription on request
Company & support
Who is behind Valant, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2005 · 21 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- Seattle, US
How you get support
- PhonePlan not stated
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsPlan not stated
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsPlan not stated
- Dedicated account managerNot listed
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Site states unlimited access to a live, local behavioral health support team; support phone line for existing customers and a support ticket portal plus knowledge base are documented. Support hours and SLAs are not stated.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Valant sits relative to every other solution in the database. Toggle axes to compare on cost, speed, friction, or buyer score.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Valant ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
The vendor site promotes narrative-generating clinical documentation and an on-demand webinar titled 'From Session to Note: See AI Notes Assist In Action'. No vendor page in the sources describes model choice, data handling or AI audit logging, so keyModel and auditLevel remain unknown.
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Industry verdicts
How Valant speaks to each vertical it serves — same data, sector lens.
HealthcareMore patients, less paperwork.
Best for in Healthcare
- Outpatient behavioral health practices (psychiatry, therapy, PMHNP)
- Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) and Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP)
- Practices that want clinical documentation, scheduling, billing and a patient portal in one system
- Groups wanting optional dedicated revenue cycle management services
Not for
- Primary care or medical-surgical specialty groups
- Behavioral health organizations outside the US needing local regulatory content
Valant is positioned exclusively for behavioral health, serving both standard outpatient care and more acute outpatient levels such as IOP and PHP. The vendor reports 50,000+ behavioral health users and 20 years of experience, with functionality spanning clinical documentation, group therapy, integrated outcome measures, ePrescribing, treatment planning, utilization review, intake/consent forms, scheduling, reporting, telehealth, a patient portal and online bill pay. Optional RCM services are delivered by a dedicated behavioral health billing team. It is not a general-purpose EHR, and no pricing is published, so budget approval requires a sales conversation.
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Valant is a behavioral health EHR and practice management platform founded in 2005 and used by 50,000+ behavioral health users. It bundles clinical documentation, treatment planning, ePrescribing and outcome measures with scheduling, billing, telehealth, a patient portal and optional revenue cycle management services, for outpatient as well as IOP/PHP programs. Pricing is quote-based; the vendor does not publish list rates.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Valant designed for?
Valant targets behavioral health organizations: psychiatry and PMHNP clinicians, therapists, practice managers, owners and billing managers. It explicitly supports both standard outpatient programs and more acute outpatient levels of care such as Intensive Outpatient Programs and Partial Hospitalization Programs, from solo practices through larger groups.
How much does Valant cost, and is there an implementation fee?
Valant does not publish list pricing. Its site routes buyers to a plans-and-pricing page and a live demo, and quotes are handled by its sales team. No mandatory implementation fee is stated on the vendor pages reviewed, and revenue cycle management services are quoted separately.
Does Valant support billing and revenue cycle work?
Yes. The platform includes billing, utilization review and reporting for practice staff, and Valant also offers a dedicated behavioral health billing team that manages revenue cycle workflows to reduce denials and improve reimbursement timelines.
What support does Valant provide?
The vendor advertises unlimited access to a live, local support team made up of behavioral health specialists. Existing customers can reach support by phone and open a support ticket, and a knowledge base provides training, resources and webinars. Support hours and response-time SLAs are not published.
Does Valant have AI features?
Valant markets narrative-generating clinical documentation and an 'AI Notes Assist' webinar for documentation. The vendor pages reviewed do not describe which model is used, whether customers can supply their own key, or whether AI actions are logged or exportable, so those details should be confirmed directly with the vendor.
How long does it take to get live on Valant?
No public onboarding timeline is published. As a full EHR and practice management rollout covering documentation, scheduling and billing, a planning window of roughly one to three months is reasonable; confirm the actual implementation plan and any fees with the vendor.