Second Opinion
A Second Opinion on the Psychiatric Medication You Are Already Taking, Online in Maryland
Dr. Hardik Yadav, MD
Board-Certified Psychiatrist · Addiction Medicine (ABPM) · Maryland
Medically reviewed by Dr. Hardik Yadav, MD, Board-Certified Psychiatrist licensed in Maryland | 15+ Years Experience | Last Updated: July 2026
You've been on it long enough to wonder whether it's still the right medication, and nobody has looked at your whole list in one sitting.
What a Psychiatric Medication Review Actually Examines
Dr. Hardik Yadav, MD, does these reviews himself, over video, for adults anywhere in Maryland. He's a Board-Certified Psychiatrist, and the visit runs a full 60 minutes, which is about what it takes to work through a regimen that was built one prescription at a time.
Most medication lists are assembled in pieces. One drug gets added for a symptom, another for the side effect of the first, and the next prescriber inherits the whole arrangement without having chosen any of it. Dr. Yadav goes through what each medication is doing, whether two of them are doing the same job, and whether one is working against another. He looks past the psychiatric drugs as well, since a thyroid problem, low B12, or anemia can produce symptoms that get treated as depression for years. And when a second condition has been sitting underneath the one being treated, a medication aimed at half the picture was never going to be enough on its own.
What to Have Ready for the Review
The hour goes further when you arrive with the history written down. For everything you take now: the name, the dose, and roughly how long you've been on it. Then the medications that came before, with the reason each one ended, because why a prescription was stopped usually says more than the prescription itself. Add any side effect you noticed and when it started, whether or not anyone connected it to a drug at the time. Bring recent bloodwork if you have any. None of this needs to be complete or exact. Dr. Yadav builds the history out with you during the visit, and a rough list written from memory the night before still gets you well into the hour.
The Questions a Second Opinion Should Answer
By the end of the visit you have his read on four questions. Whether the medication you're taking fits the condition you actually have. Whether a change of dose, or a different drug, is worth trying. What you'd be trading away in either direction, side effects included. And whether medication is carrying more of the plan than it ought to be. Dr. Yadav works psychotherapy approaches into his own visits, and where the missing piece is talk therapy with someone else, he'll name that and point you toward it. You leave with a recommendation you can act on.
Changing Your Medication Stays Your Decision
Your prescription stays where it is unless you decide otherwise. A second opinion is an opinion: Dr. Yadav tells you what he would do and why, and the reasoning is the part that matters, because you're the one who has to live with the result. Where the medication you're on is doing its job, he says so plainly, and that lands differently coming from a psychiatrist who didn't make the original call. Where he'd change something, he explains the trade-off and leaves the choice with you. One thing to be clear about: no psychiatric medication should be stopped or adjusted on your own, and that includes anything you read here. Keep taking what you've been prescribed until a prescriber tells you otherwise.
The Psychiatrist Reading Your List
Who reads your list matters as much as what's on it. Dr. Yadav holds board certification in psychiatry, and a separate Addiction Medicine certification through the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He trained in psychiatry at the University of Louisville and went on to a Master's in Public Health. Fifteen years of practice sit behind the opinion, a good deal of it inside the corrections system, where illness tends to arrive late, severe, and rarely on its own. Long prescription lists, and two or three conditions running at once, are the cases he's spent a career on. That is the experience that counts when the question is whether your own regimen still adds up. He sees adults across the range he has always treated: depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety, OCD and PTSD, adult ADHD, and alcohol and opioid use.
Second Opinions by Telehealth, Across Maryland
The review happens over video, so a second look at your prescriptions costs you an hour rather than a day. Ansh Health Associates operates by telehealth across Maryland, and appointments run into the evening and onto the weekend, which is usually what it takes for somebody already holding down a job and a treatment plan. Nothing here asks you to travel to an office, ADHD medication and Suboxone included. The platforms are HIPAA-compliant, and since Dr. Yadav bills no insurer, a second opinion on your prescriptions leaves no trace in your insurance file and none with your employer.
What a Second Opinion Costs and the Codes Your Insurer Will Ask For
A second opinion is worth pricing before you book it, because this one comes out of your pocket. The review is the 60-minute initial visit at Ansh Health Associates, and it's $350, settled in full before the appointment by credit, debit, or HSA/FSA card. Ask afterward and you get a superbill: an itemized receipt that already carries CPT 90792 and the practice Tax ID, which is what your plan wants to see before it reimburses anything at the out-of-network rate. What it pays back in the end is between you and the carrier. If you want Dr. Yadav to take the prescribing on from there, follow-ups run 30 minutes at $200, billed under CPT 99213, 99214, 90833, or 90836 depending on what the visit involves. And if the numbers are the sticking point, the 15-minute consultation is free.
“Most medication lists are built one prescription at a time, and nobody has looked at the whole thing in one sitting. That is what a second opinion is for, and your prescription stays yours to change.”
Dr. Yadav is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist and an Addiction Medicine Specialist (American Board of Preventive Medicine), with an MD, a Master of Public Health, and over 15 years of experience that includes complex cases in the corrections system. Every visit across Maryland is with him directly, by video.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
- Can I get a second opinion on my psychiatric medication in Maryland?
- Yes. Dr. Hardik Yadav, MD, a Board-Certified Psychiatrist, reviews psychiatric medication for adults anywhere in Maryland by video. The review runs a full 60 minutes, and you never have to come in.
- What should I have ready for a medication second opinion?
- The name and dose of everything you take now, roughly how long you have been on each, the medications you tried before and the reason each one ended, and any side effects you have noticed. Recent bloodwork helps if you have it. A rough list is enough to work from.
- Will Dr. Yadav take me off my medication?
- Only if you decide to change it. He gives you his assessment and the reasoning behind it, and where your current medication is doing its job he tells you so. Any change is a decision you make with a prescriber, and no psychiatric medication should be stopped on your own.
- What if the review finds my medication is right?
- Then you have that settled, which is a real result. Dr. Yadav will say when the current plan holds up, and where he would fine-tune rather than replace, he explains what he would adjust and why.
- What does a psychiatric medication second opinion cost?
- $350 for the 60-minute review, paid before the visit. Dr. Yadav takes no insurance, so you settle it directly and then request a superbill, which arrives itemized with CPT 90792 and the practice Tax ID on it for your out-of-network claim. Continue with him afterward and follow-up medication visits are $200 for 30 minutes.
- Can you review ADHD medication or Suboxone?
- Yes to both, and neither asks you into an office. Dr. Yadav holds an Addiction Medicine certification through the American Board of Preventive Medicine. That means a regimen including buprenorphine gets reviewed by the same physician who reviews the rest of it.
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