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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if anyone will leave the practice, I imagine many obgyns become obgyns because they want to deliver babies.

Check out this March of Dimes info on maternity care deserts. Pretty unnerving: https://www.marchofdimes.org/maternity-care-deserts-report.

Is this really likely in the dmv? It’s different than South Dakota or some other rural area.

Poster whose guess is this is bc of increased liability insurance. I don’t think this is likely here but I wouldn’t be surprised if this sort of thing is why liability insurance probably skyrocketed.

What makes you say you don't think this (ending OB care because of increased insurance $) is likely the case? You think some other reason? With the assumption that OBs who deliver babies enjoy providing OB care, the only two reasons I can come up with for the change are: (1) financial - and therefore insurance reasons or (2) ending their OB practice was part of settlement terms of a lawsuit.

Sorry this wasn’t clear. I was responding to the post about whether the issues in SD and elsewhere are likely in MD. I don’t think so. I meant I do think the dropping of OB case is bc of insurance costs, although the PP who points out they probably would have mentioned rising costs and the reasons makes a good argument.

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Anonymous wrote:I used CWC for my last 2 pregnancies, and they were excellent. After delivering elsewhere, I can’t say enough good things re Sibley. I experienced the opposite of being pushed to a c-section. I was scheduled for one (at my request), and ended up really being pushed and encouraged to do a vbac after I went into labor. Talk to your provider, but I think it’s a lot of talk on here about the sibley c section rate, but when you tease out that their average maternal age is a lot higher then the rate is similar to elsewhere.

This is helpful, thank you. How does CWC work for care? Do you have a primary provider, and then also rotate around? Or do you exclusively rotate, with no primary?

Anonymous wrote:Well, the Foxhall patient portal is now down (at least for me - it says "Please be advised we are currently experiencing issues that may cause delays or unexpected failures when accessing MyHealthRecord"), and when I called the front desk to ask about transferring my records to a potential new OB, they said they can't guarantee when the records will be sent because there are so many people needing records transferred. Because I'm 25 weeks already, the new OBs I'm looking into won't accept me until they review my medical record. So I guess this will be a bit of a process to try to get in somewhere.

Really annoying.

shs2024 wrote:In the same situation. Does anyone have experiences with RHJ or Dr. Desouza? These are the other two providers besides Bloom and CWC that Foxhall recommended.

Anonymous wrote:I am a patient of Dr Bren’s and did not get a call in advance like Dr Greene’s patients. Wish she had told me at my anatomy scan last Friday! Ended up going with Desouza because he had good reviews. What a mess. Also talked to the records person at Foxhall today, who told me to email my records request since the portal was down.

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Anonymous wrote:They lost two doctors last year and very quickly lost the male doctor they hired to replace them. I wonder if they were too understaffed to continue obstetrics?

This is exactly the reason. They had stopped taking new OB patients. It's not possible to run a practice like that with limited staff.

“They had stopped taking new OB patients” - ARGH, so why did they let some of us get to 24, 25, 26 weeks before telling people? This is really self interested (financially) if they just tried to delay announcing as long as possible while knowing this was coming. We’d already been billed for the “global cost of care” (out of network for Dr. Green). If Jan 20 was essential for insurance reasons and they knew this was coming, they should have told people earlier so that anyone with a due date post-1/20 could move OBs before 20 weeks. I’m not really one to make a fuss and probably won’t complain but I think this sort of behavior is pretty shitty.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a patient of Dr Bren’s and did not get a call in advance like Dr Greene’s patients. Wish she had told me at my anatomy scan last Friday! Ended up going with Desouza because he had good reviews. What a mess. Also talked to the records person at Foxhall today, who told me to email my records request since the portal was down.

lol when I emailed the request (at their instruction) to the email address the Foxhall front desk person gave me, the records person wrote back and said it was a HIPAA violation to send records via email, and they could only send the records via the portal. The doc office Dr. Green referred me to will only accept the records via email. As of now, the Foxhall records person just hasn’t replied to me at all. Sigh.

shs2024 wrote:In the same situation. Does anyone have experiences with RHJ or Dr. Desouza? These are the other two providers besides Bloom and CWC that Foxhall recommended.