Saurabh B. Bhardwaj, MD
Specialties: Adult Psychiatry
Gender: Male
Biography: Saurabh Bhardwaj, M.D., Medical Director of the Addictions Program is board-certified in both general psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. Dr. Bhardwaj received his medical degree from Dr. Vaishampayan Memorial Medical College in Solapur, India, then went on to complete an internship in medicine, surgery, and related branches at Grant Medical College and J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India. In 2017, Dr. Bhardwaj completed a general adult psychiatry residency program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pennsylvania followed by an addiction psychiatry fellowship at Northwestern University, McGaw Medical Center, Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Dr. Bhardwaj’s passion for addictions treatment lead him to UMMC in August of 2018 to be medical director of the then new addiction clinic where he introduced new, evidenced based, methods of addictions care. Dr. Bhardwaj is the medical director of the new Center for Innovation & Discovery in Addiction or CIDA. When Dr. Bhardwaj is not seeing patients or doing research, he enjoys spending time with family, tending to his vegetable garden, or peering through his telescope at nebulae, star clusters, and planets.
Practice Locations
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Riverchase - UMMC
2550 Flowood Drive, Flowood, MS 39232 View Location |
Accepted Insurance Plans
The University of Mississippi Medical Center accepts all plans, but may not be an in-network provider with your plan. We encourage you to contact your insurer and ask if the plan is in network with UMMC. Always contact your insurance carrier for specific coverage information.
*Note: Grenada and Holmes County locations have different payor contracts. Oral Surgeons are considered in-network to the medical health plans listed below NOT dental.
Jackson and Madison
Medicare health insurance plans
- Devoted Health
- Humana Medicare Advantage
- Medicare - Fee for Service
- Railroad Medicare - Fee for Service
- Shared Health Mississippi
- United Healthcare (except HMO)
- Vantage Health Plan - Medicare Advantage
- Wellcare - Medicare Advantage
Medicaid health plans
- Mississippi Medicaid Fee for Service
- MS CAN Plans: Magnolia, Molina, TrueCare
- MS CHIP: Magnolia, Molina, TrueCare
Dental plans
- Always Care
- Avesis
- Medicaid Fee for Service
- MS CAN: Magnolia Health Plan, Molina HealthCare, TrueCare
- Ambetter
- Unum
Vision plans
- EyeMed
- First Look
- March Vision
Commercial, Marketplace and other health plans
- Aetna Health Management (excludes UMMC Madison)
- Ambetter
- American Life Care - PHCS/Multiplan
- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi
- BCBS Federal
- Celtic (Transplants)
- Cigna PPO (excludes transplants; excludes UMMC Madison)
- Corvel Healthcare Corp (Workers Comp.)
- First Choice Health Plan - includes Humana PPO Commercial, but not Humana Medicare Advantage
- First Health Network/Coventry - Aetna
- Government Employees Health Insurance Association (GEHA) - United Healthcare
- Interlink Health Services (Transplant)
- LifeTrac (Transplant)
- Mississippi Department of Rehab Services (MDRS)
- Mississippi Physicians Care Network (MPCN)
- Mississippi State and School Employees' Health Insurance Plan (AHS Network administered by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi)
- Multiplan - PHCS/American Life Care
- North Mississippi Health Link
- OptumHealth Care Solutions, Inc. (Transplant)
- OptumHealth VA CCN
- PPO Plus, LLC/Zelis/Stratose
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- Tricare
- United Healthcare: PPO Commercial (excludes HMO)
- Vantage Health Plan: Commercial, PPACA Plan
- Veterans Administration
Behavioral health plans
- United Behavioral Health
- Cigna Behavioral Health
Education
| Board Certification: | Psychiatry & Neurology, Psychiatry |
| Fellowship: | Northwestern University Medical School |
| Internship: | Grant Medical College & Sir JJ Hospitals |
| Residency: | University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine |
Experience
Current Positions
| Medical Director, Center for Innovation & Discovery in Addictions, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS | 12/2019 - Present |
| Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS | 08/2018 - Present |
Specialty Certification Licensure
| Certification, Addiction Psychiatry Board Certification | 10/2018 - Present |
| Certification, General Psychiatry Board Certification | 09/2017 - Present |
Honors, Awards, and Recognition
| Trailblazer Teaching Award, University of Mississippi School of Medicine | 2021 |
| Ruth Fox Scholarship, American Society for Addiction Medicine | 2018 |