Press kit and expert source for psychiatric care in Arizona.
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About Better Place Now
Better Place Now offers psychiatric evaluation and medication management across Arizona by secure video, and in person in the Phoenix area by arrangement. Care is led by Dr. Justin Schwarting, DNP, PMHNP-BC, a board-certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner who has worked in behavioral health since 2005. Every first visit is a full 60 minutes.
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- Practice
- Better Place Now, psychiatric evaluation and medication management
- Provider
- Dr. Justin Schwarting, DNP, PMHNP-BC, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
- Where
- Secure video anywhere in Arizona; in person in the Phoenix area by arrangement
- Who
- Children 6 and up, teens, adults and older adults
- Insurance
- 12 plans, including AHCCCS (Banner-University Family Care, AIHP), Traditional Medicare, TRICARE and VA Community Care
- Self-pay
- $220 for a 60 minutes first visit, $120 for a 30 minutes follow-up
Expert source: Dr. Justin Schwarting, DNP, PMHNP-BC
Board-certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP-BC) with a Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Arizona, in behavioral health since 2005, including inpatient psychiatry and outpatient care. He is a nurse practitioner, not a physician; please describe him as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. More in his biography.
Topics he can speak to
- ADHD evaluation and treatment in children, teens and adults
- Telehealth psychiatric care in Arizona, including rural and tribal communities
- Telehealth prescribing rules for ADHD medication
- Getting psychiatric care with AHCCCS, county by county
- What a psychiatric nurse practitioner does, and how the role differs from a psychiatrist
- Psychiatric care for veterans through VA Community Care and TRICARE
- Medication management: starting, adjusting and reviewing psychiatric medication
He speaks to general education, never about individual patients.
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