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ExaminationandEvaluationServicesforFederalPrograms
Empower provides General Medical Evaluations and Behavioral Health Evaluations for federal programs, prime contractors, and government partners.
Who Empower is and what it does
Empower provides General Medical Evaluations, Behavioral Health Evaluations for federal programs. Our network includes 250+ licensed providers, with telehealth evaluation capabilities spanning all 50 states, subject to applicable examination and program requirements. Clinical quality accountability is maintained at the executive level by Empower's Chief Executive Officer.
Empower is registered in SAM.gov. UEI: RFPBKTZH2KU4. CAGE: 244M2.
250+
Licensed providers
50
States with telehealth evaluation coverage
Why Empower
Examination and evaluation services for federal programs
Empower provides General Medical Evaluations and Behavioral Health Evaluations for federal programs through a clinical workforce Empower recruits and credentials directly, with named clinical leadership accountable for clinical quality.
Clinical depth across evaluation service lines
Empower's federal service lines are General Medical Evaluations and Behavioral Health Evaluations. The work includes condition-specific evaluation detail for complex behavioral health claims.
- General Medical Evaluations conducted by doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners across multiple medical specialties
- Behavioral Health Evaluations with PTSD, MST, TBI, and toxic exposure detail pages
- Structured quality review before any report is released
- Named clinical leadership accountable for clinical quality
Credentialing and examination delivery
Empower recruits, credentials, and supports its clinicians directly. Examination delivery is planned against the written scope, program requirements, clinical needs, and applicable qualification requirements.
- Direct recruitment, credentialing, and support of Empower clinicians
- In-person or telehealth examinations subject to clinical, jurisdictional, and program requirements
- Written scope and applicable qualification requirements established before cases are assigned
Clinician-led quality oversight
Clinicians conducting evaluations have a direct line to the clinical leadership accountable for quality. Clinical leadership and clinician feedback inform documentation and review processes.
- Named clinical leadership accountable for clinical quality
- Clinician-to-service qualification matching
- Structured evaluation quality review before reports are released
- Documented clinician feedback when documentation requires revision
Federal Service Lines
General Medical Evaluations and Behavioral Health Evaluations
General Medical Evaluations
Empower provides General Medical Evaluations for federal programs through doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners across multiple examination categories, delivered in person or by telehealth subject to examination and program requirements.
Explore General Medical EvaluationsBehavioral Health Evaluations
Empower provides Behavioral Health Evaluations for federal programs, including condition-specific evaluation capabilities for PTSD, military sexual trauma, traumatic brain injury, and Gulf War Illness and toxic exposure, with medical opinions, clinical quality review, and accountable clinical leadership.
Explore Behavioral Health EvaluationsDetailed Evaluation Capabilities
Condition-specific evaluation detail
Military Sexual Trauma (MST) Evaluations
Empower's licensed psychologists and psychiatrists conduct military sexual trauma examinations that follow VA markers-based evidence standards and are written for review by VA raters.
Read the Military Sexual Trauma approachTraumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Evaluations
Empower conducts traumatic brain injury evaluations that assess residuals across cognitive, emotional, and behavioral domains, with neurology expertise represented in its clinical leadership.
Read the Traumatic Brain Injury approachPTSD Evaluations
Empower's licensed psychologists and psychiatrists conduct PTSD evaluations using DSM-5 criteria, structured interviews, and stressor-linked diagnostic reasoning documented for program review.
Read the PTSD approachGulf War Illness and Toxic Exposure Evaluations
Empower evaluates Gulf War Illness and toxic exposure claims, including the behavioral health dimensions of chronic multisymptom illness and PACT Act era exposure presentations.
Read the Toxic Exposure approachExplore the Federal Hub
Capability, coverage, leadership, and teaming
Federal partner capability statement
A one-page summary of General Medical Evaluations and Behavioral Health Evaluations for primes and network administrators evaluating Empower as a subcontractor or network-provider partner.
Go to federal partner capability statementCoverage and footprint
Telehealth evaluations are available in all 50 states and in-person evaluation coverage reaches 43 states, subject to examination and program requirements.
Go to coverage and footprintLeadership and accountability
Named clinical leadership and where clinical quality accountability sits, held at the executive level by the Chief Executive Officer.
Go to leadership and accountabilityTeaming and subcontracting
How a subcontract or network relationship with Empower works: scope, credentialing, quality assurance, escalation, and reporting.
Go to teaming and subcontractingPosition Paper
Examination Quality in Complex Claims: A Position on the Standard the Work Requires
Published by the Empower Clinical Quality Team, with clinical quality accountability held at the executive level by the Chief Executive Officer.
A clinician-authored analysis of what quality means in complex behavioral health examinations: markers-based evidence in MST claims, facet separation in TBI residuals, criterion-level support for PTSD diagnoses, and scope discipline in toxic exposure evaluations.
Read the position paperFederal point of contact
Jon Towers
Policy Director, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
600 Massachusetts Ave NW, Suite 400Washington, DC 20001Last reviewed: 2026-09-07
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions federal reviewers ask
What federal examination and evaluation service lines does Empower offer?
Empower's federal service lines are General Medical Evaluations and Behavioral Health Evaluations. The Behavioral Health Evaluations service line includes detailed capabilities for PTSD, military sexual trauma, traumatic brain injury, and Gulf War Illness and toxic exposure evaluations.
Does Empower have a UEI or CAGE code?
Empower is registered in SAM.gov. UEI: RFPBKTZH2KU4. CAGE: 244M2.
What NAICS codes apply to Empower's services?
Empower's assigned NAICS codes are 621330, 621112, 621111, 621999.
Is Empower asking for a contract or procurement decision?
Empower is not requesting a contract action, an earmark, or a procurement decision. We are asking the Committee to sustain pressure on examination quality for the conditions where it matters most.
Who is Empower's federal point of contact?
Jon Towers, Policy Director at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, reachable at 202.383.4420 or jtowers@bhfs.com.
Reviewing Empower for a federal program?
Contact the named federal point of contact to discuss examination and evaluation scope, or review the capability statement for service-line and coverage details.