Nursing Home, Rehabilitation, & Assisted Living Facilities

The benefits of mobile x-ray and EKG at the residence of the patient are too numerous to name. Benefits accrue to the patient and to the facility, in convenience, pain, suffering, and financially; just to mention a few. In all settings where we visit the patient residence, we are frequently thanked by the patient and the care providers because the patient was able to stay in a stable and familiar environment with a minimal intervention into their daily lives. Those of us who are fortunate to have our health and freedom cannot really appreciate how frightening a trip away from our residence can be with strangers, in an ambulance to a hospital where we know no one and we are often left alone and afraid. Even the best care providers cannot make up for the fear that is experienced by many patients.

When it comes to cost for the facility, the patient, the insurance companies, there is no comparison. In many settings we are able to do the service for about 15% of the cost of sending the patient to the hospital. The savings are often greater than 85%; for example $1200 dollars through the emergency room at the hospital via ambulance, versus $140 for mobile x-ray.  Even under Medicare the coverage is only 80%. Which is better for the patient or the secondary insurance...20%of $1200($240) or 20% of $140($28)?  The choice is obvious.

MMDS is the choice of service simply because we care, we exceed expectations of speed of service to include arrival at the site as well as same day and even sometimes same hour reports. Not only are we timely, we have had many comments made about the professionalism of our team but also the quality of the reports. 

Comments made by a nursing home patient…” The last time they sent me out, I cried all day. It took several hours and I couldn’t quit crying. It’s so nice when you come here.”