FOR REFERRING CLINICIANS

Send Iron Ridge a referral

For licensed clinicians referring a client. A member of our clinical team follows up personally on every referral. If the case is better discussed than written, call — calls are answered live, Mon–Fri 8am–9pm CT, and we would usually rather talk it through.

Keep it de-identified at this stage. Initials or your own reference are enough. We will arrange a release of information before any clinical records are exchanged, so there is no need to send documentation with this form.

If there is an immediate safety concern, call 988 or 911 rather than using this form. Flag it here as well and we will call you.

Clinician referral form

What happens after you send this

A clinician reads the referral and replies to you directly. Not an intake coordinator, and not an automated acknowledgement.

If the case looks like a fit, we ask you for a release of information before any records move. Until that is in place the conversation stays at the level of clinical impression, which is why nothing you send here needs documentation attached to it.

If it is not a fit, we say so and tell you why. When to refer to IOP sets out the thresholds we use, along with the near-misses we see most often: OCD with sexual content, an active substance use disorder that needs addressing first, and acute risk that belongs at a higher level of care.

Either way you hear back. Where the client consents, we tell you whether they engaged, and we coordinate across the eight-week arc rather than going quiet after admission. Most referring clinicians keep their own work with the client running alongside the program, and we would rather that continue than displace it.

What we do not do

We do not contact your client directly unless you ask us to. We contact a carrier only if the client chooses out-of-network billing. And we do not take the case over — the clinical arc is eight weeks, and the client goes back to you at the end of it.

Other ways to coordinate

Out-of-network. Private pay, out-of-network billing to your PPO, or a superbill you submit yourself. Nothing goes to your insurer unless you choose.