Telepsychiatry and Online Therapy in Chicago
A: Consider seeing a psychiatrist online via virtual visits with our practice.
Telepsychiatry is the application of telemedicine to the specialty field of psychiatry. The term describes the delivery of psychiatric assessment and care through video conferencing or virtual visits.
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Chicago, IL, 60607
TelepsychHealth is Chicago’s premier, highly rated telepsychiatry and virtual therapy practice made up of the highest quality psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and therapists. We recognize the difficulty patients face trying to seek treatment. We enjoy spending time educating patient & family about recommended treatment options. Finding the right therapist is difficult, and perhaps even more challenging is deciding which type of therapy you should receive. Your success is our success!
Chicago’s suburbs are defined by the Lincoln Park area to the north, the Randolph and Fulton Market to the west, The Loop in the center (with the top tourist attractions) and the South Side to the south.
Bruce Bassi, MD, MS
Medical Director and Founder
Board Certified Addiction Psychiatrist
John Riley, PA-C
Psychiatric Physician Associate
Clairmarie Szopa, MS, LCPC, NCC
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
Michael Mahoney, LCPC, CADC
Director of Integrated Care
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
Antony Antony PMHNP-BC
Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Kimberly Eccher, PA-C in Psychiatry
Psychiatric Physician Associate
Morgan Tate, PA-C
Psychiatric Physician Associate
Susan Amelang, PA-C
Physician Associate in Psychiatry
Chicago Telepsychiatry
If you live in Chicago, you are eligible to see a telepsychiatrist via virtual visits. It’s easy, affordable, and is usually covered by your insurance. Telepsychiatry offers treatment to suburban, urban, rural, and underserved areas of Illinois. If you are in the state of Illinois, you can be seen for psychiatry and therapy. Telepsychiatry is widely accepted and used in hospitals, health clinics, and other sites throughout Illinois.
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In Illinois, just like every other state, any clinician providing services to a patient located in Illinois must be licensed by the Illinois IDFPR.
Telemedicine may be provided by means of real-time two-way, interactive audio and visual communications, including the application of secure video conferencing or store-and-forward technology to provide or support health care delivery, which facilitate the assessment, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, and care management of a patient’s health care.
“Telemedicine [according to CMS] is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another using interactive telecommunications equipment that includes, at a minimum, audio and video equipment permitting two-way, real time, interactive communication between the patient and physician or practitioner at the distant site to improve a patient’s health.”
According to the Executive Order to Expand Telehealth Services, signed by Governor JB Pritzker on March 19, 2020
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Beginning March 19, 2020 and continuing for the duration of the Gubernatorial Disaster proclamation, in order to protect the public’s health, and to permit expedited treatment of health conditions… all health insurance issuers regulated by the Department of Insurance are hereby required to cover the costs of all Telehealth Services rendered by in-network providers to deliver any clinically appropriate, medically necessary covered services and treatments to insureds, enrollees, and members under each policy, contract, or certificate of health insurance coverage.
Illinois rules require that a patient-physician relationship is established for telemedicine to be practiced. Patient-physician relationships can be established through telemedicine which includes real time video conferencing.
The following services may not be conducted via telemedicine:
- Children’s day treatment
- Partial hospitalization programs
- Mental health residential treatment services
- Case management services delivered to children
- Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBS IL)
- Cigna
- Humana
- Medicare
- Optum Behavioral
- UnitedHealthcare