Accreditations. What they mean.

Joint Commission accreditation

The Joint Commission is the nation’s largest healthcare accreditation body, established in 1951. It accredits more than 22,000 hospitals, clinics, and care organizations against a public set of standards covering patient safety, infection control, medication management, environment of care, and clinical performance measurement. Most insurance payers (commercial, Medicare, Medicaid) require Joint Commission accreditation as a condition for participation.

Outpatient mental health clinics aren’t required to seek Joint Commission accreditation; many smaller practices don’t. We chose to because the survey process catches things internal review can miss — medication reconciliation gaps, clinical-record completeness, emergency preparedness for the small but real risk of in-clinic psychiatric crisis. The accreditation is renewed every three years through an unannounced site survey.

Verify our accreditation at qualitycheck.org (opens in new tab), the public-facing Joint Commission directory.

Medicare certification

Medicare certification means we’ve been approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to bill Medicare for outpatient mental health services. The certification process verifies clinician credentialing, billing compliance, and program-specific quality standards. Without it, a clinic cannot accept Medicare or Medicare Advantage patients — and many private insurance plans tier their coverage based on a clinic’s Medicare status.

Practical consequence for patients: we accept traditional Medicare and most Medicare Advantage plans, with the same in-network protections and copay structure as commercial plans.

Verify our Medicare certification through the federal NPI Registry (opens in new tab). Each of our clinicians has an active National Provider Identifier (NPI) listed publicly there.

New Jersey state licensure

Every clinician at Positive Reset Eatontown holds an active license issued by the State of New Jersey. The specific licensing board depends on the clinician’s discipline:

• Psychiatrists (MD, DO) are licensed by the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners.
• Advanced-practice psychiatric nurses (PMHNP-BC, APN) are licensed by the New Jersey Board of Nursing with prescriptive authority.
• Psychologists (PhD, PsyD) are licensed by the New Jersey State Board of Psychological Examiners.
• Licensed clinical social workers (LCSW) are licensed by the New Jersey State Board of Social Work Examiners.
• Licensed professional counselors (LPC) and licensed marriage and family therapists (LMFT) are licensed by the New Jersey Professional Counselor Examiners Committee.
• Licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselors (LCADC) are licensed by the New Jersey Alcohol and Drug Counselor Committee.

Each clinician’s NJ license number is published on their individual profile page. Verify any license at the NJ Division of Consumer Affairs license-search portal (opens in new tab).

Insurance credentialing

Beyond clinical accreditation, we are credentialed in-network with each of the insurance plans we accept. The credentialing process is plan-specific and verifies our clinic and each individual clinician against the payer’s standards before the plan will reimburse for services at in-network rates.

We are credentialed with all 5 NJ FamilyCare (Medicaid) MCOs — Horizon NJ Health, Aetna Better Health of NJ, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan, Wellpoint NJ, and FidelisCare NJ — alongside Medicare, Tricare, and most major commercial plans (Aetna, Cigna, Horizon BCBS, UnitedHealthcare, Oxford, Oscar). See the insurance hub for the full list and per-plan detail.

What we don’t claim

We are not a hospital and don’t hold hospital accreditation. We don’t offer inpatient psychiatric care, partial hospitalization, or 24/7 crisis services. For any of those, your local 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (opens in new tab) and the closest hospital emergency room are the right starting points. We are an outpatient clinic, with the credentials appropriate to that scope.

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