MENTAL HEALTH & MSO EXECUTIVE SEARCH

Leadership for Outpatient Mental Health Platforms

CEOs, COOs, CFOs, Chief Clinical Officers, and Chief Growth Officers for outpatient mental health platforms and management services organizations.

Built for the MSO Model

Since 2014, Spartan Strategics has recruited platform-level leadership for outpatient mental health operators and management services organizations. We understand the MSO model deeply: the friendly-PC / MSO legal architecture, provider recruitment and retention economics, payer credentialing and contract management at scale, telehealth-in-person hybrid delivery, and the technology stack (EHR, RCM, patient acquisition) that determines whether an MSO scales profitably or stalls at $30M.

Our candidates aren’t general healthcare execs — they’ve built or scaled mental health platforms specifically. When you’re hiring a COO for a 200-provider MSO or a CGO for a rollup platform integrating five acquired practices, we source against operators who have solved exactly that problem before.

EXPERTISE THAT SHOWS UP DAY ONE

We know the friendly-PC structure, provider recruitment, and platform tech.

The candidates we present to mental health MSOs have scaled provider networks past 100 clinicians, negotiated payer contracts at the platform level, and built the RCM and technology stacks that make MSOs profitable at scale.

ROLES WE RECRUIT

At Every Level

Executive search is our specialty — but we routinely place therapists, nurses, admissions counselors, program coordinators, billing / AR-AP clerks, and other clinical and program staff as well.

Operational Leadership

CEO · COO · CFO · CGO · President · Chief of Staff · VP Operations

Clinical Leadership

Chief Clinical Officer · Chief Medical Officer · VP Clinical Services · Director of Provider Relations

Growth & Revenue

VP Payer Contracts · VP Provider Recruiting · VP Marketing · VP Technology · Head of M&A

WHY MSO OPERATORS CALL US

Provider retention, payer scale, and platform tech. That is the MSO equation.

The candidates we present know how to keep 200-provider networks productive, how to negotiate at the payer platform level, and how to build the EHR / RCM stack that makes an MSO profitable at scale. Because they have done it.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Frequently Asked

What kinds of mental health platforms does Spartan work with?

Outpatient mental health MSOs, digital-first mental health platforms, community mental health providers, and hybrid telehealth-in-person operators. Most of our engagements are with PE-backed MSOs, though we also work with founder-led platforms scaling toward institutional investment.

Do you understand the friendly-PC / MSO structure?

Yes. The MSO model requires leaders who understand the corporate practice of medicine constraints in each state, the MSO-PC operating agreement mechanics, and the compliance discipline required to keep the structure clean. Our candidates have led operations inside this framework.

Can you place executives who know EHR, RCM, and healthcare technology?

Yes. Modern mental health platforms are technology-driven. We regularly place VPs of Technology, Heads of Product, and Chief Operating Officers with deep experience in Kipu, Alleva, athenahealth, Elation, AdvancedMD, and specialty RCM platforms.

Do you support PE sponsor searches for platform-level leadership?

Yes. A significant portion of our work is directly with private equity sponsors on portfolio company executive searches — CEO transitions post-close, CFO builds for platforms preparing for their next round, and CGO recruits to accelerate organic and inorganic growth.