Adult ADHD Psychiatrist for the Bronx

The Bronx has about 1.38 million residents in the NYC Health Department's 2024 estimates, and on several of the department's access measures it fares worse than any other borough. Adults here who suspect ADHD often meet two problems at once: fewer easy routes into psychiatric care, and the everyday cost of untreated symptoms at school and work. This page covers what is specific to the Bronx: what the city's data says about access, the academic medical center and public hospitals that serve the borough, campus disability offices, the rules for a video visit taken from the Bronx, and how to start. It does not describe an office in the Bronx. Call the office to ask how and where visits are held.

Access to care in the Bronx, from the city's data

These figures come from the Health Department's Community Health Profiles dataset (updated May 2026). They describe medical and psychiatric care in general, not ADHD.

The Health Department cautions that hospitalization rates can be higher in areas with residential treatment facilities or shelters, because people may list those as their address. Even so, Bronx adults were the most likely in the city to report going without care they needed, while the borough's uninsured rate was close to the city's.

Who in the Bronx looks for adult ADHD care

• College students at Fordham's Rose Hill campus, Lehman College and Hostos Community College, often because a disability office asked for documentation.
• Adults returning to school or training who struggled the first time and want to understand why before trying again.
• Working adults whose jobs depend on schedules, paperwork and follow-through, and who have been told for years they are not trying hard enough.
• People on Medicaid or the Essential Plan, who need to know which routes their coverage supports. See New York Medicaid and adult ADHD care.

The Bronx's academic medical center and public hospitals

These are public and academic institutions, listed as resources. They are not part of Dr. Shershow's practice.

• Montefiore Einstein, Montefiore Behavioral Health Center (adult outpatient). Its page lists ADHD among the conditions treated in adult outpatient care, alongside depression, anxiety and mood disorders, at three Bronx locations: Westchester Square, the Moses Center on East 210th Street, and the Wakefield Center on Bronx Boulevard. It is a general adult clinic rather than a dedicated ADHD program.
• NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi, Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP). 1400 Pelham Parkway South, Building 1, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for children, adolescents, adults and older adults. Extended observation beds next to the psychiatric emergency room allow up to 72 hours of observation.
• NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln. Lincoln's behavioral health department runs an adult outpatient program and a mobile crisis unit. On August 10, 2026, the Governor's office announced $5 million in capital funding and $1 million in start-up funding for Lincoln to establish a new CPEP serving the Bronx, with six adult extended observation beds. The announcement did not give an opening date.

Bronx campus disability offices

Each college decides accommodations under its own rules, and no evaluation guarantees a diagnosis or an accommodation.

If you need documentation for school or a licensing exam, see ADHD evaluations for accommodations in NYC.

Which rules apply to a video visit taken from the Bronx

New York's State Education Department says a practitioner must hold a New York license, or be otherwise authorized, when providing services to a patient located in New York. Dr. Shershow holds New York and New Jersey licenses, and for any video visit you must be physically in one of those two states.

• Telehealth and stimulants. As of October 2026, New York sets no in-person requirement of its own for prescribing controlled medications by telehealth and follows federal rules. The federal telemedicine flexibilities run through December 31, 2026. See telehealth ADHD prescriptions in New York in 2026.
• Prescription monitoring. Public Health Law section 3343-a requires prescribers to consult New York's prescription monitoring program registry before prescribing a Schedule II, III or IV controlled substance.
• Working in Westchester or New Jersey. A visit taken from a workplace in Westchester is still in New York. A visit taken from New Jersey falls under New Jersey's rules, including its 2026 in-person requirements for stimulant patients who start by telehealth.

Filling an ADHD prescription in the Bronx

New York's regulation 10 NYCRR 80.67 applies at any Bronx pharmacy. Schedule II prescriptions cannot be refilled. The base limit is a 30-day supply; for attention deficit disorder (code B), a practitioner may prescribe up to a three-month supply when the condition or code is on the prescription. Another prescription within 30 days generally waits until all but a seven-day supply of the last one is used. Call the pharmacy before a prescription is sent to confirm the exact medication and strength is in stock; the FDA's drug shortage database shows national status.

Other Bronx resources that are not the practice

• NYC 988. Free, confidential support by phone, text or chat, 24 hours a day, in more than 200 languages.
• ACCES-VR Bronx District Office. 1215 Zerega Avenue, with interpreter and ASL services available. New York's vocational rehabilitation program helps adults whose disability affects finding or keeping work. See ACCES-VR for adults with ADHD.
• NAMI-NYC Helpline. Call, text, chat or email, Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM.

Anyone in immediate danger should call 911.

Insurance questions under New York law

For plans regulated by New York, including Medicaid managed care and the Essential Plan, the state's fact sheet says a first appointment with a mental health professional must be available within 10 business days. If your plan's network cannot meet that, file an access complaint; the insurer then has three business days to find a provider in its network, and if it cannot, it must approve an out-of-network referral at the same cost sharing. New York's Behavioral Health Ombudsman (CHAMP) helps at 888-614-5400. For this practice, the office can tell you the current fees and how insurance works with the practice; see fees and insurance.

How to start from the Bronx

Call the office or use the call-back form on this page. Say where you will usually be during visits, since that decides which state's rules apply. Gather what you can about school history, current medications and past treatment. The evaluation looks at current symptoms, history, health, and other explanations such as anxiety, depression, sleep problems or stress, and ends with what it found and the treatment options that fit.