Oct 17 2026
FasPsych Review: A Flexible Approach to Telepsychiatry Staffing
A hospital may have beds and nurses and an emergency department waiting to care for patients but still lack the resources to organize a psychiatric consult when needed. Having an on-call psychiatrist visit the facility may not be feasible, especially when the demand fluctuates hourly.
That's the problem FasPsych Telepsychiatry Staffing solves. FasPsych links healthcare organizations with remote psychiatric clinicians and facilitates the administrative work required to integrate them into your current services. This is especially appealing to administrators who seek reliable coverage without creating an entirely new telehealth program.
The attraction is access to psychiatric staffing and implementation support through one provider relationship.
4.3 / 5
Clinicians easily schedule flex time with FasPsych. The service firm helps arrange remote psychiatric coverage for hospitals, clinics and correctional healthcare teams that want operational support.
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FasPsych is a telepsychiatry staffing company, not a direct-to-consumer appointment marketplace. Its customers are organizations that require psychiatric providers to supplement care delivered through their own programs and facilities.
Private clinics, outpatient clinics, medical-surgical hospitals and critical access hospitals, rural health centers and rehab facilities are among the potential partners identified by the company. Services are marketed to emergency rooms and correctional facilities as well. These settings can have very different staffing requirements.
An ED may require urgent psychiatric assessment. An inpatient service may require virtual rounding. A community clinic may need ongoing med management visits. FasPsych markets service arrangements designed around these different schedules and clinical responsibilities.
The wider shortage of mental health professionals is nationwide on the federal HRSA shortage-area dashboard. It identifies which communities and facilities have shortages of mental health professionals. Telepsychiatry isn't going to fix every workforce issue, but it does provide organizations with another method to structure clinical coverage.
FasPsych sells access to clinical capacity, not merely video-call software.
FasPsych inquires about patient volume, staffing needs and schedule preferences and claims it will pair users with clinicians from its network who meet those needs.
Services provided include psychiatric consults, virtual rounding, virtual medical director coverage and psychiatrist partnering with NPs as needed. Consults may be scheduled or urgent based on the coverage provided.
That's more flexibility than just seeing someone regularly in an outpatient clinic. Hospitals may want consults. Clinics may want repeat visits. Specific clinician availability and start dates still need to be confirmed.
FasPsych advertises nationwide reach as well. That doesn't mean just any clinician can see a patient anywhere in the country. According to federal behavioral health licensure guidance, providers are expected to meet all legal requirements including those where the practice takes place and where the patient is located. The company's staffing page states that providers are licensed to practice in the state they provide services to patients.
Help with implementation is part of the appeal as well. FasPsych mentions assistance with credentialing, onboarding, telehealth technology and facility workflows. One article from the company says most facilities can be operational within two to four weeks. That's not a guaranteed start date however.
For a hospital administrator, that support can reduce the amount of telepsychiatry-specific setup the internal team has to organize. That being said, it does not replace your hospital's responsibility for clinical governance, workflow integration, access rights or technology coordination.
The practical advantage is having a staffing partner help manage the moving parts.
FasPsych says its service integrates with most existing patient-management and electronic health record systems without additional software installation. Clinics should double-check this capability, security concerns and how much local technical integration will be required. This isn't a standalone EHR purchase.
FasPsych claims to have been offering behavioral health staffing services since 2007. While this provides them with more operating history, it does not guarantee quality of service at one facility.
FasPsych does not publish a flat monthly subscription rate. Several pricing options are listed on their payment-options page, including hourly blocks, per-consult, per diem, fee-for-service and on-call coverage.
That flexibility matters for facilities with variable demand. A clinic that books predictable appointment volumes will have a different cost profile than an ED looking for sporadic coverage. Hourly rate should therefore be compared against the intended schedule & clinical scope, not in isolation.
According to FasPsych, organizations do not pay to join and only begin payments when service has been rendered. Rates, commitments, and terms of coverage still need to be agreed upon in a proposal.
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These are important purchasing decisions. FasPsych's value proposition is highest when the staffing need can truly be fulfilled remotely and matches the clinicians it has in its network.
FasPsych features testimonials from partners on its website. Those are certainly helpful illustrations of the partnerships it describes, but are self-selected by the company, and should not be considered an objective satisfaction survey.
An external Birdeye review collection that syndicates Google reviews. Comments there about communication and service can be pieced together as a small & contradictory sample of customer voice, but is not an independent audit of staffing performance. The company's named partner testimonials may be more meaningful to institutional buyers, but are still self-selected.
To an administrator, the more relevant question becomes does the proposed mix of clinicians, hours and workflow match your facility's true service needs. The published material gives a useful starting point, but the devil is in the details of your actual schedule.
Final Verdict
FasPsych makes a compelling sales pitch to organizations needing psychiatric care but not wanting every role to be location-based. Its strengths are the variety of care settings it addresses, adaptable provider schedules and support for the operational side of telepsychiatry.
The service should be viewed as a managed clinical staffing partnership. It does not substitute for every hospital technology or type of medical recruitment.
If your hospital, correctional healthcare team or clinic could utilize remote psychiatric support FasPsych deserves serious consideration as a staffing partner.
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