The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia Practice Association

The purpose of children's Hospital of Philadelphia Practice association (choppa) is to manage the clinical affairs of the children's Hospital of Philadelphia (chop), and its staff and faculty compensation, and to serve as a means of liaison among the clinical departments at chop in regard to clinical and academic affairs including the promotion of teaching, undergraduate and post-graduate medical education, and research at chop. It also serves as a billing organization for chop's professional behavioral health services of its division of child and adolescent Psychiatry and behavioral sciences (dcapbs).