Husky Health Psychiatrist Serving Stratford, CT

Stratford stretches along Long Island Sound — a mix of neighborhoods, longtime families, commuters, and people working shifts at the area's manufacturing and healthcare employers. A lot of those residents are on Husky Health, and a lot of them have run into the same problem: Connecticut has more psychiatric need than it has providers who accept Medicaid. Elite Health LLC is trying to be part of the answer to that. Sindhia Shyras, APRN, is a board-certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with nine years of experience — and she's in-network with Husky Health. She sees patients via telehealth statewide and in person at our New Britain office. You don't need a referral. You don't need to wait months. You just need to call or book online and we'll take it from there. Care that works with your insurance shouldn't feel like a luxury — but for too many Stratford residents, it has. That's what we're here to change. Sindhia speaks English, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu, and she's seen patients from all kinds of backgrounds and situations. Whoever you are and however you got here, there's room for you.

What Husky Health Covers for Psychiatric Care

Husky Health covers psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and telehealth psychiatry. Most Husky A and Husky D members pay $0 or a minimal copay — and Connecticut's mental health parity law means your plan has to treat mental health the same as physical health. So if Husky covers a specialist visit for a thyroid issue, it covers a specialist visit for depression or ADHD too. Prior authorization? If your plan requires it for ongoing medication management, we handle the submission. You shouldn't have to navigate insurance paperwork on top of everything else.

Conditions and Services

Sindhia treats depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, OCD, panic disorder, insomnia, and mood disorders in adults. Your first appointment is a full psychiatric evaluation — about sixty minutes — not a rushed intake. She wants to understand your history and what's actually going on before she recommends anything. From there, your care plan gets built around you: medication, supportive therapy, or a combination. Follow-up visits keep things on track and give you a real relationship with your provider, not just a check-in box.

Telehealth for Stratford Residents

Getting to New Britain for every appointment isn't always realistic. Work schedules, kids, transportation — it adds up. That's why telehealth matters. Husky Health covers telehealth psychiatry statewide, so you can meet with Sindhia from home on your phone or laptop, on a schedule that actually fits your life. Same clinical quality. Same billing through Husky. And if you ever want to come in person, we're in New Britain at 1 Liberty Square, Suite 301.

Why So Many CT Practices Don't Take Medicaid — And Why We Do

Medicaid reimbursement rates are lower than private insurance, which is why a lot of practices quietly stop accepting it or never start. But the people who depend on Husky Health aren't less deserving of good care — they're just working with what they have. Elite Health LLC was built with Medicaid patients in mind. We're not doing it as a side program. It's core to what we do. Stratford has real mental health needs, and those needs don't disappear because the insurance card is blue instead of something else.

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