Anonymous
11/19/2025 16:33
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
Anonymous wrote:I’ve been noticing the impact mostly in Gastroenterology.
Funny you would say that because I asked my gwu gyn for a GI rec and she said the good ones she knew had all left. It irked me she would not tell me their names because they no longer worked for GW.
Anonymous
11/19/2025 16:27
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
I’ve been noticing the impact mostly in Gastroenterology.
Anonymous
11/19/2025 15:32
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
I’ve had only positive experiences there. Delivered two kids at GW and still see a fantastic OBGYN there for perimenopause issues. I don’t do family medicine there and I do remember there was an issue with their ultrasound tech during my last mammogram (as in one was not available during my appointment), but that could happen anywhere. I haven’t noticed anything negative really.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 11:30
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
MFA Internal Medicine eroded my patience. A PCP informed she was unavailable for my appointment. I had waited for my annual checkup for 5 months and wasted two hrs in morning commute!
Anonymous
11/17/2025 16:00
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
DH had some docs there who left and went to Sibley. Of course, we have a Sibley doc who went to Inova.
Anonymous
11/17/2025 10:53
Subject: Re:GW MFA failing financially
I had a horrific experience there. I was overbilled for the procedures they did do, billed for procedures they didn't even do, and injured by the doctor who I'd hired to treat me.
Stay the hell away from GW MFA!!!
Stay the hell away from GW MFA!!!
Anonymous
11/16/2025 20:12
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
It's probably because they suck.
Anonymous
11/16/2025 19:53
Subject: Re:GW MFA failing financially
That place needs to close. There's a reason it's failing...
Anonymous
11/16/2025 18:07
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
The article doesn’t mention this, but I wonder to what extent Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates are an issue. Reimbursement rates tend to be less than cost, and DC has about 300,000 residents on Medicaid. Additionally, private insurance reimbursement rates aren’t great either. For hospitals, imaging and elective surgeries (meaning scheduled, non-emergency surgical procedures), pharmacy, and rehabilitation tend to be the only profitable services.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 16:05
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this is widely know but GW MFAs (the group of GW doctors providing private patient care) has been experiencing severe economic losses:https://gwhatchet.com/2025/10/06/mfa-bleeds-100-million-in-fy2025-as-debt-hits-444-million/
This makes a TON of sense to me since every time I have ever tried to get care at MFA it has been a very weird experience to the point that it seems like the practices don’t even exist. Like, they try to give me an appointment with a GP in six months … for my current urgent issue? And it is basically impossible to schedule on line, and often impossible to reach a real person at all. I did have a better experience a few years ago with the dermatology practice.
+1. I gave up trying to schedule an appointment with anyone there because it was always at least a 6 month wait.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 16:04
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
MFA eliminated their entire allergy practice a couple of years ago, no notice to patients.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 14:42
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this is widely know but GW MFAs (the group of GW doctors providing private patient care) has been experiencing severe economic losses:https://gwhatchet.com/2025/10/06/mfa-bleeds-100-million-in-fy2025-as-debt-hits-444-million/
This makes a TON of sense to me since every time I have ever tried to get care at MFA it has been a very weird experience to the point that it seems like the practices don’t even exist. Like, they try to give me an appointment with a GP in six months … for my current urgent issue? And it is basically impossible to schedule on line, and often impossible to reach a real person at all. I did have a better experience a few years ago with the dermatology practice.
This was how things were at my PCP's office in Mclean (one of the big groups, but not GW). If you have an "urgent issue," you were going to see a NP, if you could get in at all. I had to use urgent care for the most part, and when you went to schedule and annual physical there would be nothing available for 6 months. I finally just scrounged up the money to go to a concierge practice. It's expensive as heck though.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 14:09
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
Anonymous
11/14/2025 14:09
Subject: GW MFA failing financially
I don’t think this is widely know but GW MFAs (the group of GW doctors providing private patient care) has been experiencing severe economic losses:https://gwhatchet.com/2025/10/06/mfa-bleeds-100-million-in-fy2025-as-debt-hits-444-million/
This makes a TON of sense to me since every time I have ever tried to get care at MFA it has been a very weird experience to the point that it seems like the practices don’t even exist. Like, they try to give me an appointment with a GP in six months … for my current urgent issue? And it is basically impossible to schedule on line, and often impossible to reach a real person at all. I did have a better experience a few years ago with the dermatology practice.
This makes a TON of sense to me since every time I have ever tried to get care at MFA it has been a very weird experience to the point that it seems like the practices don’t even exist. Like, they try to give me an appointment with a GP in six months … for my current urgent issue? And it is basically impossible to schedule on line, and often impossible to reach a real person at all. I did have a better experience a few years ago with the dermatology practice.