Schafer Consulting is a Behavioral Health Consultant and Management Firm
Schafer Consulting Inc. is a Behavioral Health management and consultant company. Our Senior Partners and executive consultants collaboratively assist psychiatric treatment programs throughout the United States. Established in 1993, we have successfully improved hundreds of hospitals providing mental health and substance abuse treatment by tailoring how and what we do for each Client.

Neil Shapiro, M.B.A.
Mr. Shapiro received his MBA in hospital and health administration, and BA with honors from the University of Iowa.
Mr. Shapiro has extensive financial, management, and development experience and is often involved at a senior executive level to improve profitability, negotiate agreements, develop strategies, and lead organizational transformation.
Mr. Shapiro founded Managed Health Consultants in Bethesda, Maryland in 1992 to apply sound business principles and technical tools to social service agencies, behavioral health organizations, hospitals, and government agencies. In an era of increasing costs and decreasing reimbursement, there was a need to provide non-profits with crucial tools to decrease organization costs and overhead and to employ quantitative analysis to make informed decisions. Mr. Shapiro and Managed Health Services have provided hospitals, nonprofit agencies, and governmental organizations with critical consulting regarding their growth and development.
Prior to founding Managed Health Services and later joining Schafer Consulting Inc., Mr. Shapiro was Chief Operating Officer of Tenet’s Healthcare’s Special Services Division of 55 Psychiatric Hospitals. After this Mr. Shapiro was President and owner of United Psychiatric Systems, a group of 8 psychiatric and residential treatment facilities in the Midwest. Mr. Shapiro has owned and managed numerous outpatient and inpatient facilities throughout the U.S.
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Since 1993, Schafer Consulting has specialized in improving behavioral health care for hospitals, academic medical centers, residential treatment facilities, and outpatient clinics throughout the United States. We look forward to speaking with you in confidence about your specific needs.