Seeing clients through Headway or Alma? See what you'd keep with your own practice
Cima

Headway, Alma, Grow and similar networks

They got you started.
Now keep what you earn.

Networks credential you fast and send clients. The cost is their rate, their cut or their monthly fee, and a caseload that's tied to their contracts. Here's what that adds up to, and how to run your own practice instead.

Your numbers

*Sacra's estimate; Headway doesn't publish its take. Alma instead charges a membership (about $125 a month) and pays its own negotiated rate.

A network keeps about
—
a year from your insurance sessions

Cima Solo
$708
a year, claims, reminders and booking included

The difference
—
a year, before your own contract rates (which can be higher or lower by payer)

What changes when the practice is yours

Your rates

You're paid the full allowed amount on your own contracts, and you set your cash-pay rates.

Your clients

Your client list, records and booking page are yours, and so are the referral sources who send them.

Your name

Clients see your practice, your website and your number in every reminder, not a platform's brand.

Your growth

Add clinicians, a biller, or an IOP. The software grows with you; nobody takes a share of it.

How to move, without losing income

  1. Get your own NPI (Type 2 for a group) and CAQH profile ready. Most payers read your credentials from CAQH.
  2. Apply to the payers your clients use. Expect 60–120 days per payer. Keep seeing clients through the network meanwhile.
  3. Start Cima in the meantime. Bring your own cash-pay and out-of-network clients first. Superbills are built in.
  4. Move insured clients as each contract starts. Check their coverage in one click, send their new paperwork by text, and book them on your calendar.

Want help getting credentialed? Tell us which payers, and we'll walk you through it.

Not legal or financial advice. Network terms vary; read your agreement for notice periods and rules about clients you met through the network.

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