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Yuko Merchant, MD
Hospital Medicine
About Me
Dr. Merchant is a board-certified internal medicine physician with over a decade of experience in hospital medicine, outpatient chronic disease management, and preventive care, emphasizing evidence-based medicine and personalized approaches to patient needs.
She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and an attending physician at the Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Merchant has served as Chief of Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Doctors Brooklyn Heights and has been involved in the recruitment and training of medical trainees.
Her clinical interests include population health management, preventive medicine, women’s health, and managing complex acute cases requiring hospital admission. Committed to improving community health, Dr. Merchant has also served on the board for population health initiatives.
Originally from Japan and internationally trained, she worked as a research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School and completed her Internal Medicine residency program at Norwalk Hospital, affiliated with the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Merchant also holds a master’s degree in Clinical Service Operations from Harvard Medical School.
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Language
English
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
Clinical Focus
- Annual Physical
- General Consultation
- Seasonal Influenza Vaccine
Education
MD, Kigezi International School of Medicine-England
MS, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School
Residency, Internal Medicine
Norwalk Hospital
Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine
Insurance Information
Accepted insurance may vary by the doctor’s office location. Please contact the office directly to obtain the most up-to-date insurance information.
- 1199 SEIU
- AETNA - Commercial
- AETNA - Medicare
- Affinity Medicaid-Medicare-Essential Exchange
- Amidacare Medicaid
- CIGNA Healthcare
- Centivo
- Elderplan
- EmblemHealth - GHI-PPO
- EmblemHealth - HIP
- EmblemHealth - HIP-Medicaid
- EmblemHealth - HIP-Medicare
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield - Commercial/Exchange
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield - HealthPlus Medicaid
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield - Medicare
- Fidelis Health Care
- Horizon NJ
- Magnacare-Health Care
- Medicare - NJ
- Medicare - NY
- Metroplus
- Multiplan PHCS
- NJ Medicaid
- NY Medicaid
- Oscar
- Partners Health Plan
- Senior Whole Health
- United Health Care - Commercial
- United Health Care - Empire Plan
- United Health Care - Oxford Care
- United Health Care - Top Tier
- VNSNY Choice Medicare
- VNSNY Select Health Medicaid
- VillageCareMax
- WellCare Health Plan
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Patient Experience Star Ratings and Comments
The Patient Experience Star Rating reflects our patients’ perception of how well their Mount Sinai provider communicated with them during an office visit. The Star Rating is based on patient responses to three questions on a patient experience survey, a standardized questionnaire sent to verified patients and distributed by a third party vendor, Press Ganey. Responses are measured on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the best score.
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We've built up a good rapport over the years.
Dr. Merchant is great! I like her bedside manner as she is friendly, knowledgeable, thorough, patient, and professional. I leave my appointments with her feeling cared for, listened to, and not rushed.
Dr. Merchant is professional, warm and thorough. Efficient but not rushed.
Industry Relationships
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Dr. Merchant has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.
Mount Sinai’s faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.