Whole-Person
Care, Wherever
You Live.
Freedmen's Medicine brings primary care, behavioral health, substance use treatment, and help with everyday needs to homes and community settings across the District of Columbia.
Accepting Medicare, DC Medicaid, DC Alliance, UHC Dual Complete, and most commercial plans.
Find Your Pathway
Every referral comes in through one secure portal, and every partner gets a team that follows through.
Choose the path that fits you.
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Patients, Families & Caregivers
Care at home for you or someone you love.
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Hospitals & Discharge Planners
Safe discharge and real follow-up for complex patients.
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CSAs & ACT Teams
Primary care for your clients, coordinated with your team.
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Re-entry Partners
Health care ready on day one after release.
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SUD Partners
Long-acting MOUD delivered to the door.
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Managed Care Plans
Lower total cost of care for your highest-cost members.
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Two systems of care. One person.
People living with a chronic medical condition and a mental health or substance use disorder are too often treated by two systems that don't talk to each other. The medical team doesn't coordinate with the behavioral health team, and the result is missed care, repeat hospital stays, and rising costs. Freedmen's Medicine closes that gap with one integrated team that comes to the person.
One team. Every need.
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Home-Based Primary Care
A dedicated physician or nurse practitioner who manages chronic conditions at home, with in-person visits and telehealth between them. Diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, kidney disease, wound care, and more.
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Integrated Behavioral Health
Collaborative Care Management (CoCM) that brings psychiatric consultation into primary care, plus coordination with each person's mental health provider.
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Mobile MOUD
Nurse-administered long-acting injectable buprenorphine and extended-release naltrexone in the home or community, with naloxone through our pharmacy partner.
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Hospital Transitions of Care
Transition coordinators who work alongside hospital discharge teams and make sure follow-up happens after the patient gets home.
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Care Management & Social Needs
Care managers and community health workers who screen for and address housing, food, transportation, medication access, and benefits needs. Freedmen's is a provider in the DC Coordinated Entry System.
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In-Home Diagnostics & Pharmacy
Mobile lab draws, x-ray, ultrasound, and EKG at home; medication delivery, pill packs, and insulin management through North Capitol Pharmacy.
Already have a doctor? We work alongside them
Freedmen's serves people whether or not they have a primary care provider. For someone who already has one, we provide community case management and coordinate services for health-related social needs in partnership with that provider. For someone who needs one — or who is ready for a change — we become their primary care home.
Home is wherever you stay.
Freedmen's serves people whether or not they have a primary care provider. For someone who already has one, we provide community case management and coordinate services for health-related social needs in partnership with that provider. For someone who needs one — or who is ready for a change — we become their primary care home.
PIWC-DC
10,000
Scaling whole-person care to
Freedmen's Medicine is the implementation partner for Promoting Integrated Whole Person Care – DC (PIWC-DC), a five-year initiative funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) through the DC Department of Behavioral Health. PIWC-DC is now in Year 3, with a goal of bringing integrated care to 10,000 District residents by 2029. Priority goes to adults 55 and older living with a chronic physical condition and a behavioral health or substance use disorder; no one is turned away because of age.
The model is built to last: every clinical service is billed to the health plans that serve District residents, so care continues long after the grant ends.
District residents in integrated care by 2029
Insurance we accept
● Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage
● Dual-eligible (Medicare + Medicaid), including QMB/SLMB — we assess and help enroll
● DC Medicaid fee-for-service
● DC Medicaid managed care: AmeriHealth Caritas DC, Wellpoint DC, MedStar Family Choice DC
● DC Healthcare Alliance
● UnitedHealthcare Dual Complete
● Most commercial insurance plans
Kaiser Permanente not accepted). A sliding fee scale is available for people who qualify.
Named for a legacy of care.
Freedmen's Medicine is named in honor of Freedmen's Hospital, founded in Washington in 1862 as the first federally funded hospital for Black Americans. We carry that commitment forward: high-quality care that reaches the people the health system too often leaves behind.
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Ready to make a referral?
Submit online in about five minutes, or reach our referral team directly.Fax 202-588-5971 : referrals@freedmensmedicine.com