Further reimbursement cuts:
The irony, Michaud said, is many doctors in private practice won’t take new Medicaid patients because their reimbursement is so low, and now the state is about to penalize the hospital-based physicians practices that do see them.
When will the government learn that cutting physician reimbursement rates is the worst way to control costs? This will simply lead to more doctors not accepting Medicaid, worsening access. And with a fee-for-service system, there will also be more pressure to increase the number of services, paradoxically increasing health care costs. Idiots.
