What 30,000 Spravato treatments have taught us.
We've given more than 30,000 Spravato treatments across our four New Jersey offices, top ten in the country by volume. Every one of them taught our team something small about making the next one easier. These are the lessons that matter most to the people who come to us.
The first session is the hardest, so we prepare you for it.
The first sessions are usually the most intense, and after the first few treatments most people hardly notice the dissociation at all. So we spend our effort on the first one: walking you through what you may feel, helping you pick calm music, and keeping a Sherpa beside you. What the hard first-session stories online describe.
Feeling less doesn't mean it's working less.
As sessions get gentler, many people worry the medication has stopped working. It hasn't. How strongly you feel a session has nothing to do with how well it's helping, and we tell every patient this early.
The approval is part of the treatment.
A treatment you can't get approved doesn't help anyone. So our evaluations capture what insurers ask for, and 95% of our requests are approved the first time. When one isn't, we always go to peer-to-peer, then second-level appeal, then independent external review. 34 of 36 denials were overturned in our most recent internal review.
A history of failed antidepressants is a qualification, not a verdict.
Many of the people we treat have tried several antidepressants. Spravato works on glutamate signalling, a different system from all of them. We've seen enough people respond after everything else failed to stop treating that history as a prediction.
Rides and hours decide who sticks with it.
Twice a week in the first month is a lot of trips, and you can't drive yourself home. So we treat in the evenings and on Saturdays, and we help NJ Medicaid patients set up covered rides through ModivCare. Getting home after treatment.
Side effects you leave at the office are easier to live with.
Spravato's side effects stay inside the two hours you rest with us. Many people go about the rest of their day with a sense of profound relaxation, which is a very different experience from a daily pill whose side effects come home every day.
30 doses
Every day.
Side effectsEvery single day: sedation, dry mouth, sexual side effects, weight gain.
8 visits
Twice a week.
4 visits
Down to once a week.
2–4 visits a month
Down to once a week or every other week. Dashed: weeks you may or may not need.
Side effectsMostly gone by the end of each visit.
Most people are evaluated within one business day.
Register once and our team starts your insurance check and reaches out to schedule your evaluation.
Register once, and our team starts your insurance check and reaches out to schedule your evaluation.
Request an evaluationName, date of birth and insurer. We check your plan and call you back. No commitment.
Check my coverageWhat people ask about our experience.
How many Spravato treatments have you given?
More than 30,000, across our four New Jersey offices.
Are you one of the largest Spravato providers?
Yes. We're in the top ten nationally by treatment volume.
Why does experience matter for Spravato?
Because the hard part of Spravato is the first sessions and the insurance. Experience makes both smoother. About us.