Psychiatry

Training path

1. College (bachelor’s degree) 4 years
2. Medical school (MD or DO) 4 years
3. Psychiatry residency 4 years

Training after medical school: 4 years. From the start of college: about 12 years.

Usual minimum program lengths from ACGME program requirements. Some doctors take extra research years or a second fellowship.

Who they are

• MD (DOs make up the rest) 91%
• Women 45%
• Graduated 35 or more years ago 27%
• Offer telehealth 51%
• Accept Medicare’s approved amount 90%

Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.

What they do most for Medicare patients

• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes 1,457,104
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes 1,033,614
• Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes 1,031,639
• Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 30 minutes 690,156
• Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 25 minutes 392,628
• Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 50 minutes 292,186
• Provision of covid-19 test, nonprescription self-administered and self-collected use, fda approved, authorized or cleared, one test count 242,441
• Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 45 minutes 209,846
• Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services 196,624
• Subsequent nursing facility care with straightforward level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 15 minutes 163,756
• Treatment using magnetic field to stimulate nerve cells in brain, subsequent delivery and management 146,041
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes 145,649

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Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.

What they prescribe most

• Trazodone Hcl 5.8%
• Quetiapine Fumarate (Seroquel, Seroquel Xr) 5.8%
• Clonazepam (Klonopin) 5.8%
• Bupropion Hcl (Bupropion Xl, Wellbutrin Sr, Wellbutrin Xl) 4.6%
• Sertraline Hcl (Zoloft) 4.2%
• Alprazolam (Xanax, Xanax Xr) 3.7%
• Escitalopram Oxalate (Lexapro) 3.4%
• Duloxetine Hcl (Cymbalta, Drizalma Sprinkle) 3.3%
• Aripiprazole (Abilify Asimtufii, Abilify Maintena, Abilify) 3.3%
• Lorazepam (Ativan, Loreev Xr) 3.2%
• Olanzapine (Zyprexa, Zyprexa Zydis) 3.1%
• Mirtazapine (Remeron) 3.0%
• Fluoxetine Hcl (Fluoxetine Dr, Prozac) 3.0%
• Buspirone Hcl 3.0%
• Risperidone (Risperdal, Perseris, Uzedy) 2.8%

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Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.

Hospitals where the most work

• Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 108 Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
• Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA 75 Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital New York, NY 74 Psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian Hospital
• Long Island Jewish Medical Center New Hyde PArk, NY 74 Psychiatry at Long Island Jewish Medical Center
• Montefiore Medical Center Bronx, NY 63 Psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center
• University of Michigan Health System Ann Arbor, MI 60 Psychiatry at University of Michigan Health System
• UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside Pittsburgh, PA 57 Psychiatry at UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
• Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT 54 Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Baltimore, MD 52 Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the
• NYU Langone Hospitals New York, NY 52 Psychiatry at NYU Langone Hospitals

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Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.

Schools they graduated from most

• Wayne State University School of Medicine 219
• University of Minnesota Medical School 176
• University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 174
• New York Medical College 166
• University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb) 161
• Indiana University School of Medicine 160
• Medical College of Wisconsin 157
• University of Texas Medical School at Houston 153
• Baylor College of Medicine 146
• University of Oklahoma College of Medicine 146

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From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).