Who is Managing Your Patients’ Behavioral Health?
evolvedMD is leading the integration of behavioral health services in modern primary care. Uniquely upfront and ongoing, our distinctive model not only places but embeds behavioral health specialists onsite at your practice. We offer an economically viable and better way to integrate behavioral health that ultimately drives improved patient outcomes.

Our Mission

Reduce Stigma & Normalize Behavioral Health
People are suffering. Four in 10 adults are experiencing at least one adverse mental or behavioral health symptom. Rates of treatment for depression are already low and treatment is often inadequate with less than half of patients suffering from the most severe forms of depression receiving any type of intervention or care. At evolvedMD we are dedicated to reducing stigma and normalizing the need to seek help which includes advocating for expanded access to quality behavioral health resources for all.

Deliver Best-In-Class Modern Care
We help providers deliver modern care. Beyond telehealth, we believe in on-site, embedded, and whole patient care in the patients’ preferred setting. evolvedMD’s model aligns with RAND’s mental health care transformation recommendations. (RAND is one of the most respected think tanks in the country). Our model accomplishes outstanding outcomes for both providers and patients.

Focus on Everyone
People-centered, evolvedMD values everyone. Patients, providers, and partners drive our business. But our team drives our impact. Recognized by Phoenix Business Journal as one of the “Best Places to Work”, we live the model we preach. We ensure clinicians and everyone else we work with feel empowered and supported.
Our Story
Conceptualized in 2015 and launched in 2017, evolvedMD was established to address a family challenge encountered by one of our founders. Originally started as a primary care medication therapy management program, evolvedMD transformed into a behavioral health solution – once the urgent need was realized and sustainability was validated. The original pilot highlighted the prevalence of behavioral health challenges. Even though over 80% of the program’s chronically ill patients screened positive for depression, none of them had access to crucial recourses.
Understanding the need to radically reimagine the traditional behavioral health model, evolvedMD pivoted to integrate behavioral health into primary care. Launched in 2017 to support the behavioral health needs of eight primary care providers (PCPs) across three sites, we continue to expand and now provide upfront and ongoing modern care for over 90 primary care providers across 20 sites with the ability to grow and scale exponentially.

Our Innovative Approach
Patients are best served when primary care and behavioral health work together. Psychiatric Collaborative Care Management (CoCM), the industry gold standard, is designed to help primary care providers meet their patients’ behavioral health needs. Clinically validated and patient-focused, this model significantly improves patient outcomes.
evolvedMD is dedicated to whole patient care. We are also committed to enhancing the traditional CoCM Model — ensuring patients receive seamless services. Clinics become a comprehensive solution for the full spectrum of physical and behavioral health services when evolvedMD is embedded.

Our Founders

Erik Osland
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Corporate leader turned serial entrepreneur, Erik Osland is a successful healthcare founder and now Managing Partner of evolvedMD where he helms a passionate team at the forefront of healthcare innovation. In his role, Erik is responsible for enhancing the customer experience, developing a high-performing team, and elevating the integrated behavioral health industry through thought leadership.
Prior to evolvedMD, Erik founded another healthcare venture, a clinical lab specializing in anatomical pathology services that was ultimately acquired by one of the nation’s largest diagnostic laboratories in 2020. With an extensive and proven background in B2B sales, management, and influencing high-level leaders, Erik gained national exposure and experience managing teams as the Director of National Accounts at several large medical device companies.
A Phoenix native, Erik went south for his education graduating from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.
Community-minded and passionate about creating a better future for the next generation, Erik is an active philanthropist in Phoenix with leadership positions in children’s charities including the Phoenix Active 20/30, the Aspiring Youth Foundation, and the Children in Need Foundation. An ardent supporter of the men and women who have served our country, he also serves on the national board of the Patriot Fund, an organization that honors and assists veterans and their families.
An avid golfer, Erik successfully turned his frequent hobby into America’s largest philanthropic golf society, The Stake Club, in early 2018.
When he is not in the office, in the board room, or on the green, you can find him with his wife Brooke and two children, Perry and March, at their home in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
Steve Biljan
Managing Partner, evolvedMD
Managing Partner, evolvedMD
Steve Biljan has been shaped, molded, and influenced by his upbringing. His journey to evolvedMD, to leading a passionate team at the forefront of healthcare innovation, is a story of courage and resilience. With firsthand experience in the power of behavioral health interventions and the trajectory-changing work that can be done with compassionate practitioners, Steve has dedicated his career to ensuring individuals and families who need quality mental health services receive them in a way that is not only accessible but impactful.
As Managing Partner of evolvedMD, Steve oversees finance, operations, and corporate strategy while developing a team of committed clinicians and mental health activists.
Steve is a builder (or rather an “Architect” if you look at his INTJ Myers Briggs profile). He is in his natural state when he is building infrastructure, building processes, and building people. With a strong background in business development, commercial execution, and strategic planning cultivated in commercial excellence and management positions at Coloplast, Steve knows how to operationalize solutions and grow a company. You want an expert in profit-yielding execution? Turn to the guy that helped turnaround Coloplast’s U.S. subsidiary to become the most profitable publicly traded medical device company worldwide.
Intellectually curious and diverse, Steve holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Management and Political Science from Gustavus Adolphus College, an MBA from University of Minnesota in Strategic Management and continued his studies in health policy and management at the University of California, Berkeley.
A sports enthusiast with the pedigree (but perhaps not the talent) to back up his love and focus, Steve started his career in the back office of professional Hockey where he cut (but luckily didn’t lose) his teeth in marketing, sales, and customer engagement.
And where is he most passionate? Behavioral health. A thought-leader and ardent advocate in this space, Steve is both candid and courageous in sharing his story of adversity and triumph aided by a focus on mental health.
A native Minnesotan who now splits time between San Diego and Scottsdale, you can find Steve outside in a garden or on a run, doing his best to cook an elaborate meal, or spending time with his partner and friends outside of spreadsheets and strategy sprints.