Adult ADHD Treatment in Westchase

Book the new patient visit online with a card on file and it's $169, 35% below the $260 regular price, with nothing charged at the time you book. Ongoing monthly follow-ups are $136 each.

How far is Padgett from Westchase?

It's one road. From Westchase, drive east on Linebaugh Avenue for about 4.5 miles; the clinic is just east of the Veterans Expressway, at 6904 W. Linebaugh Ave. With no turns to think about, the trip takes roughly 8 minutes in light traffic.

If you ride the Upper Tampa Bay Trail, you already know this stretch: the county trail runs along Channel A and crosses Linebaugh on its way north toward Gunn Highway. Linebaugh fills up around school start and rush hours, so give yourself a cushion for an early-morning or late-afternoon visit.

Why can't the first ADHD visit be done from home?

Padgett always holds the new patient ADHD evaluation in person at its Tampa clinic. That 30-minute visit with Morgan Colee, PA, is where your history gets a full look: current symptoms, how far back they go, including childhood, their effect on work and home, your health history, medications and any earlier records.

From Westchase, the in-person rule costs you roughly a 16-minute round trip, so the drive is rarely the hard part. The hard part is often just getting it on the calendar. Booking online takes a few minutes, and you can pick a free 15-minute phone consultation with the medical staff first if you have questions; that call is not a provider visit, and nothing is prescribed on it.

Does ADHD only matter if it's hurting your job?

No. The evaluation asks how symptoms affect home life as well as work, because adult ADHD criteria involve difficulties in more than one setting.

For parents in Westchase's neighborhoods, home can be where things slip first: school forms that sit unsigned, a family calendar that lives only in your head, practices double-booked on the same afternoon. Bring those examples to the visit alongside anything from work. Adult ADHD symptoms lists the everyday signs worth mentioning.

What happens after the evaluation?

If treatment makes sense, your provider talks through options with you, which may include stimulant or non-stimulant medication and strategies that don't involve medication. Nothing is promised in advance, including a diagnosis.

Before any controlled medication is prescribed, Padgett checks E-FORCSE, Florida's prescription drug monitoring program, as state law requires. Prescriptions go to the pharmacy you choose, and the medication's cost is separate from the visit.

From then on, each monthly follow-up is a check on how things are going: what has improved at home and at work, what hasn't, and any side effects. Your plan is adjusted from there, and follow-ups are required to stay on treatment.

Can follow-ups happen from home in Westchase?

Yes, once you're an established patient. Monthly 15-minute follow-ups at $136 can be by video, provided you're physically in Florida and hold up a valid Florida driver's license or state ID for the camera.

Pick a quiet room, not the kitchen table during homework time, and have a charged phone or laptop ready. If you'd rather keep coming in, the drive down Linebaugh is short enough that either choice works, and you can switch between the two from month to month.

Bring your notes on how the month went: whether mornings got easier, how afternoons held up, and any changes in sleep or appetite. Fifteen minutes goes quickly, so start with whatever matters most to you that month.

Which areas near Westchase are also served?

Citrus Park and Town 'N' Country have similarly short drives, about 6 and 9 minutes. Oldsmar, just west across the Pinellas County line, is a little farther, and telehealth follow-ups work there exactly the same way, since the rule is about being in Florida, not in Hillsborough County.

If you're a college student with a valid college ID, the college ADHD page explains the student rate. Otherwise, start with adult ADHD treatment at Padgett, and when you're ready, schedule your in-person visit on Linebaugh.