This company has absolutely nothing to do with the nephrology world. Direct management has experience in the world of kidney disease management but the director level folks couldn't find a kidney on an anatomy chart. In a big regional meeting once, the nephrologist was rushed through her talk to make time for an engagement specialist to talk about non-existent transportation services. The company has nothing to offer patients with kidney disease and it's not a secret that they don't care. I spent most of my days calling elderly people and trying to assess their needs although they were usually in perfectly good health (for their age) as opposed to working with patients who actually needed it. When I voiced my complaints regarding what a waste of time these assessments were and even cited that as a reason these folks didn't want to complete these phone calls, I was told that management did not want to hear about the patients age as a reason not to keep my number of assessments up. I did assessments on patients from the early 80s into the late 90s. I heard another RNCM say she did an assessment on a patient who was over 100 years old. This is nonsense and makes a mockery of the field of nephrology. What Somatus offers is generic, easily available information mostly to people who don't need it. They have you call constantly despite folks declining and opting out. They have you call people fresh out of the hospital for no reason other than to make your quota. Did I mention that the overwhelming majority of people contacted have no history of kidney disease? Those who do and are on dialysis have access to the same interdisciplinary team that calls them by phone in person at a clinic and a lot of the Somatus staff has no kidney disease background so their advice is middling at best. Somatus is what is wrong with the healthcare system in this country. It's opportunistic, parasitic and serves no other purpose than charging Medicaid and Medicare for services rendered (services being defined rather loosely). At the end of the day Somatus is as valuable to nephrology as astrologers are to NASA
