The info@cheaseapeakeadd email is working and sending bills out if you need it!

Anonymous wrote:This article was shared in a group I’m in today:
https://www.thebanner.com/economy/chesapeake-center-adhd-closing-SQDO6MUDLNGLBK5BZLPURRXFAU/

yes, it's already been discussed upthread if you read the messages starting from the publication date Jan 9.

This article was shared in a group I’m in today:
https://www.thebanner.com/economy/chesapeake-center-adhd-closing-SQDO6MUDLNGLBK5BZLPURRXFAU/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial problems due to federal government changes makes a lot of sense. These are admittedly pricey services and between the loss of jobs and the shutdown, it’s been tough for families. It doesn’t surprise me that they had to find alternative care. And there is nothing like financial problems to tear a family apart.

It doesn’t sound like the existing business model could support the costs if clinicians are going to be paid out of the owner’s personal pocket. And it sounds like they are acknowledging their ethical responsibilities and trying to set up a means to meet them.

I almost worked there as a contractor; each practitioner sets their own fees; they earned 60 percent of what there fee was/is. Did anyone say that less people were being seen? That clients dropped off?

Providers setting their own fees must have been new, because that was not the case previously. Providers were often pressured into raising rates even when they didn't want to, discouraged from giving discounts to long-term patients who fell on hard times, and would be talked badly about if they did make the decision. It was a bully operation.

it looks like maybe the entire family running the place had ADHD and other issues they couldn't manage and otherwise a high conflict and dysfunctional family

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This place is notorious for getting kids sent away to long term treatment centers. Recently their rehab specialist has been caught sending over 1500 kids to these traumatizing programs. David levin you are scum

I heard he practiced without a license for over a year. He should be reported to the board of social work. He’s a liability!

I heard this too. And it was only because a parent looked up his license that anyone was even aware the license lapsed.

Yikes. Bold arrogance.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This place is notorious for getting kids sent away to long term treatment centers. Recently their rehab specialist has been caught sending over 1500 kids to these traumatizing programs. David levin you are scum

I heard he practiced without a license for over a year. He should be reported to the board of social work. He’s a liability!

I heard this too. And it was only because a parent looked up his license that anyone was even aware the license lapsed.

Therapist here with no relationship to this practice: you should report them to the APA board. All providers are required to provide a reasonable transition for patients who are under their care. The only time I have seen something like this is when someone abruptly closed because of a terminal diagnosis. You can't just leave patients in the lurch.

Anonymous wrote:I’m so curious how the Banner had access to all of those “internal emails”?

Those could have come from anyone who worked there; that's not too suspicious to me. A lot of people who choose not to speak on the record will still forward documents to a reporter if they want a story told.

What's just crazy to me as a parent is that from the outside, the place seemed like such a well-oiled machine. I remember appreciating getting the very pointed reminders about getting med prescriptions filled over the holidays -- as a parent who probably has undiagnosed attention issues, I liked those DO YOU HAVE YOUR MEDS?? emails. I liked the fact that they would submit bills to my insurance, for the same reason - I would never have remembered to do that myself. I remember thinking how nice it was that they had so many providers under one roof, so that if I wanted to get another neuropsych I could do that. Or if my kid could benefit from executive function coaching, I could do that. Or I could just have a support group for myself as a parent of a kid with ADHD. I justified the prices in my own mind by telling myself that it was a one-stop shop for decent services.

Just goes to show that you never know.

Anonymous wrote:This place is notorious for getting kids sent away to long term treatment centers. Recently their rehab specialist has been caught sending over 1500 kids to these traumatizing programs. David levin you are scum

I heard he practiced without a license for over a year. He should be reported to the board of social work. He’s a liability!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Banner has a story out:

https://archive.is/gCV6m

Nadueau looks utterly incompetent.

+1 scary that she is in charge of closing a big practice and all of its records

I’m so curious how the Banner had access to all of those “internal emails”?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial problems due to federal government changes makes a lot of sense. These are admittedly pricey services and between the loss of jobs and the shutdown, it’s been tough for families. It doesn’t surprise me that they had to find alternative care. And there is nothing like financial problems to tear a family apart.

It doesn’t sound like the existing business model could support the costs if clinicians are going to be paid out of the owner’s personal pocket. And it sounds like they are acknowledging their ethical responsibilities and trying to set up a means to meet them.

I almost worked there as a contractor; each practitioner sets their own fees; they earned 60 percent of what there fee was/is. Did anyone say that less people were being seen? That clients dropped off?

*their
So, the owners should not have been paying clinicians "from their own pockets." If you don't bill you don't get paid.

PP again. To clarify clinicians were not employees, they were 1099 contractors. They paid their own taxes, got no vacation or sick leave, paid for own health insurance.

This place is notorious for getting kids sent away to long term treatment centers. Recently their rehab specialist has been caught sending over 1500 kids to these traumatizing programs. David levin you are scum

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is an article about it

https://www.thebanner.com/economy/chesapeake-center-adhd-closing-SQDO6MUDLNGLBK5BZLPURRXFAU/

Wow

This is a lame bogus untrue excuse. It's not like the numbers declined so abruptly that they made a choice to not communicate to clients in need (it's not like anyone there was there for the fun of it) and families and to just drop contract employees at the last minute.