http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/how-cutting-medicaid-payments-hurts.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/how-cutting-medicaid-payments-hurts.html#comment-88741 C. Kakutani MD Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:48:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/how-cutting-medicaid-payments-hurts-patients.html#comment-88741 What's happening across the country to Medicaid is a preview of what's going to happen to your other patients: cutting off access to primary care in the form of higher dedutibles, co-pays or loss of coverage all together, as strapped companies try to weather the recession. This is a public health nightmare and wastes money ultimately as simple problems become big expensive problems and everything is dropped into the hospital's lap as the place of last resort. <br/>You do need to worry about the financial health of your hospital and whether your ED has capacity to handle your patient's true emergencies, don't you? What’s happening across the country to Medicaid is a preview of what’s going to happen to your other patients: cutting off access to primary care in the form of higher dedutibles, co-pays or loss of coverage all together, as strapped companies try to weather the recession. This is a public health nightmare and wastes money ultimately as simple problems become big expensive problems and everything is dropped into the hospital’s lap as the place of last resort.
You do need to worry about the financial health of your hospital and whether your ED has capacity to handle your patient’s true emergencies, don’t you?

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/how-cutting-medicaid-payments-hurts.html#comment-88738 Anonymous Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/how-cutting-medicaid-payments-hurts-patients.html#comment-88738 Medicaid cuts are at least one thing primary care physicians don't need to worry about. We stopped taking medicaid years ago. They were always the toughest patients (both illness and attitude wise) and the reimbursments don't cover 5 minutes of overhead. Medicaid cuts are at least one thing primary care physicians don’t need to worry about. We stopped taking medicaid years ago. They were always the toughest patients (both illness and attitude wise) and the reimbursments don’t cover 5 minutes of overhead.

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