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Free tools

Things that save you an afternoon.

Practical tools for licensed clinicians, free and without an account for most of them. We built the ones that solve a real administrative problem rather than the ones that would look good in a feature list.

Available now

Good faith estimate generator

The No Surprises Act requires a written estimate for self pay and uninsured patients, and most small practices are working off a template someone found on a forum. This builds a clean printable one in about a minute.

Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored.

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Supervision and mentorship

Associates need supervised hours. New nurse practitioners need collaborating physicians and mentors. There has never been a decent place to find either, so we made one, and it's free on both sides.

Search by discipline, state, format, and whether the supervisor is taking anyone new.

With a free listing

Printable referral card

Your listing as one clean page you can fax, email, or hand to a colleague, with a QR code for the back of a business card. Clinicians still fax, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.

With a free listing

Fill my openings

One tap when you get a cancellation. People watching your state and specialty are told, and your listing surfaces for 48 hours. No auction, no boost to buy.

Coming next

Patient handouts

Plain language one pagers you can print and hand to a patient. What an SSRI does in the first six weeks. What happens at a first psychiatric appointment. What a panic attack is. Written for people, reviewed by a board certified psychiatrist.

Coming next

Referral guides

Short guides for the clinician doing the referring. When to send someone to psychiatry and what to try first. How to start an SSRI in primary care. How to taper a benzodiazepine safely. What to tell a patient the first visit will be like.

Coming next

Cost transparency

Because clinicians post real cash rates here, we can eventually show what a first visit actually costs in a given city and specialty. Nobody publishes that today, and it's the second question every patient has.

Coming next

Access reports

Confirmed, dated availability across the country adds up to something no one else has. Once a year we'll publish it. Average wait by state, share of clinicians taking new patients, median cash rates. Free to read, free to cite.

What we won't build

Some of these would raise engagement. All of them would cost us the thing this site runs on.

  • Patient reviews or star ratings
  • A social feed or follower counts
  • Sponsored listings or paid position
  • Selling clinician contact data to recruiters or pharmaceutical companies
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Where HandshakeMD fits

The Shrink Network gives each need its own place. HandshakeMD is the clinician layer, the part that helps people and their doctors find someone who is actually available.