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Substance Use Treatment Centers

SUD Treatment Demands More Than a Generic EMR.

From medically managed detox to commercial insurance authorization and denial management, substance use treatment is too operationally complex for a platform that wasn’t purpose-built for it. Sunwave was built from the ground up for SUD. Not adapted and not configured.

Detox-specific clinical documentation: CIWA-Ar, COWS, MAR, and physician orders built into the workflow

SUD-native billing with 42 CFR Part 2 compliance, utilization review support, and commercial authorization management

One platform connecting admissions, clinical care, billing, and alumni engagement across every level of care

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CRM - Admissions & Referral Management

SUD referrals come from hospitals, courts, EAPs, primary care providers, and peer operators. Every source has different follow-up requirements, different conversion timelines, and different relationships that need active management. An inquiry that sits unanswered for two hours is often a patient who called someone else.

Sunwave’s CRM gives your admissions team real-time visibility into every inquiry, every referral source, and every available bed, so you move faster than your competition and never lose a patient in a shared inbox.

Referral
Management

Available
Bed Board

Marketing
Analytics

Salesforce Integrations

EMR - Clinical Documentation & Care Management

Detox documentation isn’t a simplified version of behavioral health documentation. It’s more demanding. Structured withdrawal scoring with CIWA-Ar and COWS, medication administration records tied to physician orders, frequent vital sign charting, and 42 CFR Part 2 compliance that goes beyond standard HIPAA. Platforms that force this into generic progress note templates create compliance risk and clinical workarounds from day one.

Sunwave’s EMR handles the full SUD clinical workflow, from medically managed detox through residential, PHP, IOP, and outpatient step-down. With AI-assisted documentation, clinician time on notes is reduced without sacrificing the detail accreditors and payers require.

AI Clinical Documentation

Calendar
Availability

Telehealth

Medication Management

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RCM - Revenue Cycle Management

Commercial insurance billing for SUD residential care is some of the most contested reimbursement in behavioral health. Utilization review, level-of-care authorizations, concurrent review, and denial management require a billing infrastructure that understands the SUD payer landscape. Sunwave’s RCM is made for SUD billing complexity. Automated claims, real-time error detection, and dashboards that give your CFO visibility into every dollar across every program. Operators on Sunwave see a 20% reduction in Days in A/R and a 50% drop in bad debt.

Eligibility
& VOBs

ACH
Payments

Insurance
Claims

Bulk
Actions

Alumni Management

Long-Term Recovery Engagement

Most former patients lose contact with their treatment center within 30 days of discharge.
Sunwave’s alumni management is built into the platform with automated follow-up schedules, real-time engagement tracking, and early warning signals so your team can reach out before a setback becomes a crisis.

Automated
Follow Up

Engagement
Tracking

Re-admission
Pipeline

Alumni
Reporting

Know the True Cost of Clinician Turnover

Every departure impacts revenue, retention, and patient outcomes.

Calculate the hidden cost of turnover and see how Sunwave helps your team operate more efficiently.

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Platform Integrations

Built for SUD Treatment. Not Adapted for It.

Every workaround your team uses today — the paper CIWA scores, the manual MAR reconciliation, the spreadsheet tracking alumni follow-up — exists because your platform wasn’t built for this work. Sunwave was. One platform for admissions, clinical care, billing, and alumni engagement. Built for substance use treatment from the ground up.
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