Did the shut-down of Mobile Doctors affect you?

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Specializes in Urgent Care, Hospice, Home Health.

I'm working for a HHA where a good 50% of our patients were Mobile Doctors patients. For those who don't know, Mobile Doctors was shut down at the end of August for fraud.

I saw a patient late last month whose only doc was a Mobile Doc and just happened to catch her with a FSBS out of range at my visit. I tried to call them and the phones were already dead. The patient had no other doc and MD was managing all of her meds. I had a diabetic patient with out of range glucose and nobody to report it to! My DON just told me to "document it" and leave it at that. It was announced at our next case conference that MD had shut down, so suddenly we have a whole slew of patients with no attending! My caseload dropped to half of what it was since all of the MD patients were put on hold. Aside from the HUGE dent in my paycheck, we had patients who were never even notified by MD or even my own agency that they no longer had a physician!

Slowly but surely, our agency has had the provider liaison/marketers set the patients up with other housecall groups. I'd say our entire agency was hit hard by the shutdown, but really it had just been the field nurses who have had their caseloads reduced by half or more! Did the shutdown affect anyone else?

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Specializes in Home Health.

Is this in Mobile, Ala.? I haven't heard anything about it, but I am in Louisiana.

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Specializes in Home Health.

Oh! I am glad they got caught. They deserve everything that's coming to them and more!

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Indianapolis. Four of our pts were Mobile Doc. All the pts information, med list, H/P locked up. Fortunately another company is willing to take these onboard..however... 3-4 wks at least before the documentation is updated.

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Specializes in Urgent Care, Hospice, Home Health.

I'm in Texas. They absolutely deserve what's coming to them! You're lucky that only four of yours were on with them! This has been a beatdown.

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We've been hit in the Detroit area, but so far my agency has been able to refer 90% of the patients that were referred to us from Mobile Doctors to other visiting MD services.

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Visiting Physicians Association has branches in all the areas you've mentioned. They've been around for over 20 years.

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