BronxDocs provided adult primary care/internal medicine, pediatrics, specialty care, and diagnostics to over 20,000 patients, who were able to schedule appointments with specialty doctors within a week instead of waiting weeks or months to receive such care and undergo critical diagnostic exams at Bronx hospitals.

EmblemHealth says it is hoping to do the same with ACPNY. According to BronxDocs, the alleged "termination" of the contract with the BronxDoc staff management company came amid ongoing negotiations between EmblemHealth and BronxDocs over health plans for NYC Union Workers, of which EmblemHealth insures hundreds of thousands along with Medicaid members and their families, raising questions about the insurer's commitment to community health and workforces.


The shutdowns also follow the recent opening of EmblemHealth’s first Neighborhood Care clinic in the Bronx, making clinics under this brand available in all five boroughs.

Haque says that he and some other doctors have since found work at other Bronx-based medical offices and that he will run ads in newspapers in the borough to inform his patients where they are.

“It is almost impossible to find me and other BronxDocs doctors because Emblem closed BronxDocs so fast and didn’t inform patients where to find their doctors. It doesn’t seem fair to the patients, but this is the Bronx and not the Upper East Side and patients in the Bronx always struggle to get good care,” he said.

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