The Mount Sinai Outpatient and Specialty Pharmacies provide pharmaceutical care to Mount Sinai outpatients and specialty pharmacy patients. For patients requiring specialty medications, we have dedicated liaisons to help identify and obtain patient financial-assistance services and programs, medication-adherence programs, personalized refill reminders, on-call pharmacist support and home delivery. We also offer free language assistance to patients whose primary languages are not English and to those who are visually impaired, deaf, or hard of hearing. We work closely with you and your doctor to bring you the best possible care.

Specialty Pharmacy

If you have a rare or chronic condition, you may need a specialty medication. These high-cost and complicated drugs are often not available at the local drug store. They can be injections, pills, or infusions. They often require special storage or handling. Sometimes these medications have side effects that require monitoring by a trained pharmacist. The Mount Sinai Pharmacy-Specialty provides these drugs, along with education, support, and other services. Our team works directly with clinical teams to help manage complex, rare, and chronic medical conditions that require specialized medication therapy. These conditions include:

• Asthma and allergy
• Atopic dermatitis
• Cardiology
• Crohn's disease
• Dermatitis
• Growth hormone disorders
• Hematologic disorders
• Hemophilia blood products
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• HIV
• Hyperlipidemia
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
• Migraine
• Multiple sclerosis
• Oncology
• Osteoarthritis
• Osteoporosis
• Other inflammatory conditions
• Psoriasis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Pulmonary arterial hypertension
• Respiratory syncytial virus
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Spondyloarthritis

Here are a few additional things you should know about the The Mount Sinai Pharmacy-Specialty:

• We offer support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including national holidays.
• We treat you as an individual. We work closely with your health care providers to develop a program designed just for you.
• To be sure you understand what you are taking and why, we offer prescription education in clinic or by phone.  We can also give you printed materials, including medication education handouts.
• We guarantee delivery of your monthly refills. We handle all shipping details.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call us.

Our Drug Take-Back Program

There are many reasons to dispose of your unused medications safely. Failure to do so may result in accidental misuse or overdose, loss of effectiveness, and contamination of the environment. That’s why Mount Sinai and federal and state governments have programs to make it easy to return unused medications.

The Mount Sinai Health System has three collection locations—The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Queens, and Mount Sinai South Nassau. These Drug Take-Back kiosks are easily available to the public to safely dispose of unwanted, expired, or unnecessary medications.  Since the first kiosk opened in 2022, we have collected more than 700 pounds of unwanted or expired medications. 

There are also many Drug Take-Back kiosks located across New York State, sponsored by the state and federal governments.  You can find one near you by searching the New York State Department of Health or U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) “Take Back” websites.  Every April and October, the DEA also sponsors a “Drug Take-Back Day”, when you can drop off unwanted or expired medication at centralized collection locations.  If you are unable to bring your medications to a disposal site or event, you can request free mail-in packages through the New York State Department of Health.

Reduce the chances of your medications finding their way into the hands of children or the environment—dispose of them safely today.

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Drug Information: Patients may access comprehensive information provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on various drugs and medications.