Coverage: Aetna in New York
Medication management in New York, in network with Aetna.
New Yorkers with Aetna coverage can read this page as the whole arrangement: psychiatric medication management by secure telehealth, anywhere in New York State, with your plan verified and your cost stated before the first visit. PsychMed Care, the medication management practice of Solutions Psychiatry, is in network with Aetna. Below is what that contract means in practice, and what it does not hide.
PsychMed Care is the medication management practice of Solutions Psychiatry. If you are looking for therapy, or therapy and medication together, the full practice is at psych.us.
What in network means here
The Aetna contract, translated
Insurance language is written for insurers. Translated, in network means this practice agreed to your plan's rates and rules, so your cost is a copay you can be told in advance instead of a charge you meet afterward.
Verified before the first visit
Your Aetna plan is checked when you book, and your copay, or your deductible position, is stated before the appointment. If a plan does not verify, that is said out loud too, with the self-pay rates on the table.
New York Aetna plans are not one plan
Employer plans downtown, union plans, marketplace plans upstate: the Aetna name covers a lot of different benefit designs in this state. Verification reads your specific plan, which is the only version of Aetna that matters to your bill.
If a deductible comes first
Some plans ask you to meet a deductible before the copay applies. When yours does, early visits bill at the contracted rate, and you are told the rate and the rule before visit one. No first statement surprises.
The whole medication picture, one prescriber
Psychiatric medication rarely travels alone. The prescriber here manages interactions, duplicates, and the medicines treating other medicines' side effects, with labs drawn at any lab near you when a decision needs them.
If things reach the point of thoughts of harming yourself, help is available now: call or text 988, text HOME to 741741 for Crisis Text Line, or call the NAMI Helpline at 1-800-950-6264. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. This practice is not an emergency service. The crisis page lists more options.
Care in New York
New York care that does not require a New York commute
The practice is telehealth across New York State, from Buffalo and Rochester to the Hudson Valley and Long Island, so the appointment happens where you live rather than where the office sits. For the in-person visits that federal or DEA requirements sometimes call for, the practice keeps an office at 276 Fifth Ave Suite 604 in New York City, and those visits are arranged with you well in advance. Your prescriber is Dr. Karel Winner, a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Vanderbilt University and a graduate degree in education from Vanderbilt University.
How it starts
How starting works
Book, hear the number, then spend the hour on the medicine instead of the bill.
Pick a time
Book online or call. The booking form asks for your insurance details, which begins the coverage check.
Get your number first
Aetna coverage, copay, and deductible are confirmed and stated before the visit. What you are told is what you are charged.
Spend the hour well
Sixty minutes on your history and your medication record, ending with a plan and a target. Follow-up Appointments run 30 minutes and track whether the plan is working.
Cost and coverage
What it costs, and what your plan covers
The first appointment is a 60-minute Comprehensive Initial Appointment at $350. Follow-up Appointments run 30 minutes at $250 each. Most patients here use insurance: copays are typically $0 to $40, and your coverage and your exact cost are verified before your first visit, so the number is known before you commit to anything. In network: Aetna, Cigna and Evernorth, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, the Blue Cross Blue Shield family, Oscar, Oxford, Carelon, and Providence. Care is by secure telehealth in 34 states plus DC, for ages 17 and up. You can book here, or call (800) 303-3221.
Related pages: this plan in other states, Aetna in Texas, Aetna in California. Other plans in New York: Cigna in New York, UnitedHealthcare in New York, Blue Cross Blue Shield in New York. The full picture of what medication care costs is on the visits and fees page.
“I stopped guessing what my plan would do. It was verified before I booked.”
Start with a 60-minute evaluation, Aetna cost stated up front