Chesapeake ADHD closing its doors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this is bizarre. this is not some mom and pop operation. Chesapeak is HUGE in the DMV. wth happened? Our provider has a private practice already so at least there's that. what a harmful thing to do to vulnerable youth in our area

I had an intake interview with them about scheduling an evaluation and hesitated after I saw the posts on this board about the HIPAA violation email mess last month. Glad I'm not fighting them to try to get my money back from an org that doesn't exist anymore.

[Anonymous]

If you paid them on a credit card in Dec, dispute the fees as fraudulent.

[Anonymous]

22:49, odd, that's our kid's doctor, and she sent out a letter saying she could not continue with her!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you paid them on a credit card in Dec, dispute the fees as fraudulent.

We had our medication visit in Dec, sure wasn't fraudulent, and I want my kid's provider to be paid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:22:49, odd, that's our kid's doctor, and she sent out a letter saying she could not continue with her!

What was the status reason?? Seems unethical to stop treatment without ensuring patient has care in place

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:22:49, odd, that's our kid's doctor, and she sent out a letter saying she could not continue with her!

What was the status reason?? Seems unethical to stop treatment without ensuring patient has care in place

In an ideal world, it would be different, but in America, doctors close practices and/or switch practices, sometimes on very short notice, and patients just need to find other arrangements...

[Anonymous]

I share everyone’s shock and indignation but find it quite ironic: Kathleen Nadeau (the owner) always said that she and her daughter have severe ADHD themselves and this abrupt closing is exactly what a person with untreated ADHD would do in the worst case scenario - no prior planning, no executive function, no consequences just “the hell with it”.

That would be so funny if it were not so sad and affected so many people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the post about CEO was deleted because someone copied it from Reddit.

What thread on Reddit? I don’t see that in the link someone posted below.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you paid them on a credit card in Dec, dispute the fees as fraudulent.

We had our medication visit in Dec, sure wasn't fraudulent, and I want my kid's provider to be paid.

Their provider wasn't paid. Chesapeake stole the money. I would dispute the payment, get a refund, and send the provider a check directly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the post about CEO was deleted because someone copied it from Reddit.

What thread on Reddit? I don’t see that in the link someone posted below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bethesda/comments/1q33ngz/chesapeake_center_suddenly_closed/

[Anonymous]

I'd actually consider reaching out to the Maryland Attorney General's office and exploring whether they might take this on - if they actually did steal money and not pay providers, it's squarely in scope of an AG enforcement action.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you paid them on a credit card in Dec, dispute the fees as fraudulent.

We had our medication visit in Dec, sure wasn't fraudulent, and I want my kid's provider to be paid.

Their provider wasn't paid. Chesapeake stole the money. I would dispute the payment, get a refund, and send the provider a check directly.

This is all anonymous random internet postings unless you hear this directly (ideally in writing) from the provider (although I don't doubt that there's some angry Chesapeake employees/contractors posting on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you paid them on a credit card in Dec, dispute the fees as fraudulent.

We had our medication visit in Dec, sure wasn't fraudulent, and I want my kid's provider to be paid.

Their provider wasn't paid. Chesapeake stole the money. I would dispute the payment, get a refund, and send the provider a check directly.

Feels like that work is on the provider to fix not the patient!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you paid them on a credit card in Dec, dispute the fees as fraudulent.

We had our medication visit in Dec, sure wasn't fraudulent, and I want my kid's provider to be paid.

Their provider wasn't paid. Chesapeake stole the money. I would dispute the payment, get a refund, and send the provider a check directly.

Feels like that work is on the provider to fix not the patient!

I have no knowledge of Chesapeake's billing, but I would be careful about sending checks to a provider directly for past work (even if Chesapeake stiffed them) when your contract is with Chesapeake. If you stop payment on a credit charge, Chesapeake (what remains of it) can say you were contractually obligated to pay them for services rendered. The provider is going to need to fight their battle directly with Chesapeake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, how can Nadeau and her daughter or whoever was running the practice get punished? You can't just close one practice abruptly and then go on to open another one, in another state, like nothing happened.

I'm not a medical professional, but if she's going to Florida and didn't break any laws in the DC area, why would they stop her? People of course can keep tabs on her new practice and share their experiences with Chesapeake ADHD leaving people in the lurch.