Physician-led telehealth
Continuity-focused buprenorphine care for New York and New Jersey.
SuboxoneNYC is a self-pay physician practice built to reduce avoidable treatment interruption. Care is delivered by physicians, by appointment, through secure video and structured follow-up.
Why This Practice Exists
Buprenorphine care should not unravel because access became harder to coordinate.
SuboxoneNYC was built for patients whose treatment is vulnerable to avoidable disruption: a prescriber retires, a refill cycle slips, follow-up becomes harder to arrange, or transfer-of-care happens at the wrong moment.
Focused on continuity
This practice is built specifically for continuity-focused buprenorphine care, not broad psychiatry and not one-time prescribing.
Physician-led telehealth
Care is delivered by physicians through secure video, with treatment decisions kept where they belong: under physician judgment.
Structured remote follow-up
Follow-up, refill timing, and digital coordination are organized to reduce avoidable interruption whenever safe and clinically appropriate.
How It Works
A clear path into care.
The process is simple: start intake, meet your treating physician by secure video, and continue with structured follow-up designed around continuity over time.
Begin secure intake
Share the treatment information needed for physician review and scheduling.
Meet your treating physician
Your physician evaluation is conducted by secure video and guided by clinical judgment and legal requirements.
Continue with structured follow-up
Follow-up cadence, refill timing, and ongoing review are organized to keep care connected over time.
Continuity Philosophy
Built to make treatment easier to keep connected.
Care continues between appointments
SuboxoneNYC is designed so continuity does not depend on last-minute scrambling. Follow-up is planned, documented, and coordinated rather than left to chance.
Digital coordination supports the physician
Treatment history, refill timing, and follow-up needs stay visible over time so the physician can make decisions with better continuity context.
Founder
Founded by Dr. Edward Ratush, MD
Dr. Edward Ratush is a board-certified psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist with more than 20 years of experience in addiction medicine and buprenorphine treatment. He serves as Medical Director of Center for Great Expectations in New Jersey and previously founded one of the first direct-to-consumer, in-network telepsychiatry models in the United States. He designed the SuboxoneNYC continuity standard to reduce the avoidable interruptions that push patients out of buprenorphine treatment.
Care is delivered by physicians operating under the SuboxoneNYC continuity standard. Your treating physician may be Dr. Ratush or another qualified physician practicing under that standard.
Credential snapshot
- Board-certified psychiatrist
- Addiction medicine specialist
- More than 20 years of experience in addiction medicine and buprenorphine treatment
- Medical Director, Center for Great Expectations in New Jersey
- Founder of one of the first direct-to-consumer, in-network telepsychiatry models in the United States
- Founder and clinical architect of the SuboxoneNYC continuity standard
Pricing
Simple and explicit.
$100/month
Self-pay practice. Practice fees are not billed to insurance.
$500 enrollment deposit. Non-refundable. Not applied to future monthly fees. Does not guarantee prescription, treatment acceptance, or any specific outcome.
Medication cost is handled separately through your dispensing pharmacy.
Access
By appointment only.
Care is delivered by secure video and coordinated digitally between appointments. SuboxoneNYC serves patients in New York and New Jersey.
Quick Answers
Short answers to the questions patients ask first.
What is SuboxoneNYC?
SuboxoneNYC is a self-pay physician practice focused on continuity of buprenorphine care. Care is delivered by physicians, by appointment, through secure video and structured follow-up.
How are physician evaluations conducted?
Physician evaluations are conducted by secure video. Follow-up is scheduled around clinical need, refill timing, and ongoing physician oversight.
Who is my treating physician?
Your treating physician is the physician responsible for your care at a given stage of treatment. Care is delivered by physicians operating under the SuboxoneNYC continuity standard.
How much does treatment cost?
$100/month. Self-pay practice. Practice fees are not billed to insurance. Medication cost is handled separately through your dispensing pharmacy.