Federal Programs
CapabilityStatement
Empower Behavioral Health: behavioral health compensation and pension style evaluations for federal programs and their primes.
Legal Entity
Empower Behavioral Health
Registration status
Empower is registered in SAM.gov. UEI and CAGE codes will be published on this page.
NAICS Codes
Assigned NAICS codes
The codes below are Empower's assigned NAICS codes in SAM.gov.
| NAICS code | Category |
|---|---|
| 621330 | Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) |
| 621112 | Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists |
| 621111 | Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) |
| 621999 | All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services |
Core Competencies
What Empower delivers
- Behavioral health compensation and pension (C&P) evaluations, including Military Sexual Trauma (MST), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), PTSD, and Gulf War Illness and toxic exposure presentations.
- Disability Benefits Questionnaires (DBQs) and medical opinions written in the legal-evidentiary language the program requires.
- Structured clinical interviews and diagnostic reasoning documented so a rater can follow the conclusion from evidence to opinion.
- Clinical quality review of every report before release.
Differentiators
How Empower works
Clinical quality review before release
Reports go through clinical quality review before they leave Empower. Reports that do not meet the standard are returned to the examiner with specific findings.
Executive accountability
Clinical quality accountability is held at the executive level by the Chief Executive Officer, not an anonymous review queue.
National telehealth network
Telehealth examinations are available in all 50 states, subject to examination and program requirements, with in-person coverage in 43 states.
Licensed provider network
The team includes 250+ licensed providers credentialed for the scope of work they perform.
Coverage
National footprint
Telehealth examinations are available in all 50 states, subject to examination and program requirements. In-person examinations are available in 43 states. The team includes 250+ licensed providers, and its clinicians have completed more than 50,000+C&P evaluations.
See coverage and how capacity is builtClinical Leadership
Named clinical leadership
Yisroel Loeb, Ph.D
Chief Executive Officer
Ph.D, Clinical Psychology
Sherry Craft, Ph.D
Chief Clinical Officer
Ph.D, Counseling Psychology, Licensed Psychologist, PSYPACT E. Passport
Ashlee Rincon, Ph.D
Director of Clinical Operations
Ph.D, Clinical Psychology, Licensed Psychologist (AZ & FL), PSYPACT Provider
Benzion Blech, MD
Chief Technology Officer
MD, Georgetown University, Neurology Residency, Mayo Clinic (Chief Resident), Board Certified in Neurology & Vascular Neurology
Point of Contact
Jon Towers
Policy Director, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
600 Massachusetts Ave NW, Suite 400Washington, DC 20001Last reviewed: 2026-08-03