CNY Psychiatry
For Referring Providers
CNY Psychiatry works with psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, primary care clinicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals throughout Central New York and beyond.
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CNY Psychiatry works with psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, primary care clinicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals throughout Central New York and beyond.
Many patients referred to us already have an established treatment team. We want to preserve those relationships.
Refer for specialty treatment without losing your patient.
A referral for TMS, Spravato, IV ketamine, or another specialty consultation does not require transferring ongoing psychiatric care.
Our role can be focused: Evaluate. Recommend. Treat when appropriate. Communicate. Return the patient to ongoing care.
WHAT CAN I REFER FOR?
TMS for Depression, conventional and accelerated options.
Accelerated TMS, intensive 50-session treatment course; CNY Psychiatry was among the early practices in New York State to offer accelerated TMS; not represented as SAINT/SNT. Spravato®, evaluation, REMS treatment requirements, insurance authorization when applicable, and psychiatric assessment at every treatment.
IV Ketamine, medically monitored, self-pay treatment with direct psychiatric assessment at every treatment visit.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy with Georgian Mustata, MD, integrated with ketamine treatment for selected patients. Patients may also continue working with their existing therapist.
rTMS for OCD, rTMS, not dTMS; off-label and based on evolving literature; collaboration with ERP therapists welcomed.
Ketamine + Written Exposure Therapy, collaboration with WET-trained therapists; therapist provides WET while CNY Psychiatry provides psychiatric evaluation, IV ketamine when appropriate, and medical oversight.
TMS for Tinnitus, selected patients after appropriate medical/audiologic evaluation; off-label with mixed evidence.
NOT SURE WHICH TREATMENT TO REFER FOR?
You don’t need to decide.
Some of the most useful referrals simply ask: “This patient remains significantly depressed despite treatment. Would you evaluate them and tell me what you think?”
We welcome those referrals.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER I REFER A PATIENT?
1. Consultation, evaluate diagnosis, symptoms, previous treatment, medical considerations, medications, functioning, and goals.
2. Recommendation, determine whether specialty treatment is appropriate. Sometimes it isn’t.
3. Treatment, provide the specialty intervention while the patient may continue longitudinal care and psychotherapy with the existing team.
4. Communication, with patient consent, communicate clinically relevant findings, response, concerns, and recommendations.
5. Return or Continued Collaboration, following acute treatment, ongoing care can continue with the established clinician; maintenance specialty treatment can continue when appropriate. Referral does not have to mean transfer of care.
WHAT INFORMATION IS HELPFUL?
Current diagnoses and clinical concerns; current medications; previous medication trials and responses; prior TMS, ketamine, ECT, or Spravato; relevant medical history; recent psychiatric notes; hospitalization history when relevant; psychotherapy history; relevant testing; and the specific clinical question.
A perfectly organized treatment history is not required before referral.
FOR THERAPISTS
Therapists are important referral sources and treatment partners. We particularly welcome collaboration with ERP therapists treating OCD and WET-trained therapists treating PTSD.
The therapeutic relationship remains yours.
FOR PRIMARY CARE CLINICIANS
Primary care clinicians frequently manage depression and anxiety successfully. When the picture becomes more complicated or conventional treatment is not enough, a referral can simply ask: What should we consider next?
FOR PSYCHIATRISTS AND PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONERS
If you believe your patient is a candidate for TMS, Spravato, or IV ketamine, tell us. If you are uncertain, we are equally comfortable with an open consultation.
Our intention is not to duplicate longitudinal psychiatric care that is already working. It is to provide expertise and treatments that may complement it.
OUR COMMITMENT TO REFERRING CLINICIANS
Respect established treatment relationships. Evaluate before treating. Be transparent about evidence, including off-label or preliminary treatments. Communicate when clinically appropriate and authorized. Avoid recommending a procedure simply because we provide it. Support transition back to the established treatment team following specialty treatment.
The best interventional psychiatry does not exist separately from the rest of a patient’s care. It becomes part of it.
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