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Medication Management in Manhattan

Manhattan holds the densest concentration of psychiatrists in America and still makes you wait months to see one, between closed panels, opaque fees, and calendars that assume your time is free. The borough that never stops has surprisingly few doors that open this week. Medication that affects your brain should be managed, not merely refilled. shrinkMD brings board certified medication management to Manhattan by video, with appointments as soon as availability allows and progress tracked at every visit.

Medically reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, FAPA, board certified psychiatrist · Published June 7, 2026 · Last reviewed June 8, 2026 · Editorial policy

Medication Management in Manhattan - board certified telepsychiatry from shrinkMD

Why shrinkMD

Care built around Manhattan

From Inwood to the Financial District, visits happen by secure video from your apartment, a booked conference room, or anywhere private, with early and evening slots built for finance, law, media, and hospital schedules.

We bill no insurance, so no diagnosis or prescription enters any carrier database, and fees are published before you book, a different arrangement from the Park Avenue waitlist economy.

What's included

Stewardship, visit by visit

Good prescribing is a feedback loop. At each visit your clinician reviews your validated symptom scores, your side effects, and your sleep, then adjusts a single variable so cause and effect stay readable. While starting or changing medication that loop runs every two to four weeks; once you are doing well it relaxes to every one to three months.

Your full trial history, names, doses, durations, responses, lives in your chart from day one, so failed experiments never get repeated. Prescriptions go electronically to your pharmacy, monitoring labs are arranged through your local clinic when a medication requires them, and your primary care doctor stays in the loop with your permission. No controlled substances, stated plainly before you ever book.

Frequently asked questions

Good questions, clear answers

How do your fees compare to Manhattan private practices?

They are flat, published, and typically far below the six hundred dollar cash visits common on the Upper East Side, with no waitlist attached.

Do you serve all of Manhattan?

Every neighborhood, identically, from Washington Heights to Battery Park, because care arrives by video wherever you have privacy and a connection.

Can you take over prescriptions from my previous provider?

Usually yes, for non controlled medications, after an evaluation and records review. Switching should not mean starting over or missing a refill.

Do you prescribe stimulants or benzodiazepines?

No, anywhere. We are upfront about it before you book, and skilled with the non controlled options the evidence supports.

How do labs work with a telehealth practice?

We coordinate orders through your local clinic or lab, lithium levels, metabolic panels, thyroid checks, and review results together. Telehealth changes the visit, not the monitoring standard.

Start medication management in Manhattan

Call 1-877-747-4656 now, appointments are available as soon as availability allows for Manhattan residents, by secure video from home.

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