DocGo, a major provider of mobile medical services and transportation, expanded its preferred provider agreement recently with Fresenius Medical Care — the nation’s largest provider of kidney dialysis treatment. The agreement will include remote patient monitoring, principal care management, chronic care management and urgent care services. 

“This partnership is a natural extension of the work that we were already doing together and builds on our strength of utilizing high-quality, tech driven care to patients, where it’s needed, when it’s needed,” DocGo CEO Anthony Capone told McKnight’s Home Care Daily Pulse in an email.

DocGo has been a Fresenius medical transportation partner since 2019. it decided to enter into a preferred provider partnership with Fresenius to work with “the leading company in the space and combine our expertise to deliver the best results,” Capone said. 

“Through this partnership, DocGo will provide its services — remote patient monitoring, principal care management, chronic care management and urgent care services — to our patients with kidney disease,” he added. “By offering these services, the providers that we work with can better manage their patient’s conditions and keep them healthier in their homes.”

DocGo’s services will help nephrologists better manage patients with end-stage renal disease and chronic kidney disease, a press release about the new partnership said. Currently, 780,000 people suffer from end-stage renal disease and millions have chronic kidney disease in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

“We plan to work with Fresenius to expand that footprint to support the millions of other patients battling kidney disease in order to provide them with a better treatment experience and better outcomes,” Capone said.