Comments on: What happens if the safety net clinics start refusing to see Medicare or Medicaid patients? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/what-happens-if-safety-net-clinics.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/what-happens-if-safety-net-clinics.html#comment-90037 Anonymous Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:36:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/what-happens-if-the-safety-net-clinics-start-refusing-to-see-medicare-or-medicaid-patients.html#comment-90037 Boulder community that only serves medicare patients had to close last month. Boulder community that only serves medicare patients had to close last month.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/what-happens-if-safety-net-clinics.html#comment-90001 Anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/what-happens-if-the-safety-net-clinics-start-refusing-to-see-medicare-or-medicaid-patients.html#comment-90001 So the employed PA thinks it's terrible. <br/><br/>It's easy to be sanctimonious when you have a steady paycheck from a clinic that is subsidized by profits from elsewhere in the medical center or from direct subsidies from the feds. <br/><br/>Maybe this PA should invest his or her savings in a small business and see what happens with a large percentage of money losing accounts. So the employed PA thinks it’s terrible.

It’s easy to be sanctimonious when you have a steady paycheck from a clinic that is subsidized by profits from elsewhere in the medical center or from direct subsidies from the feds.

Maybe this PA should invest his or her savings in a small business and see what happens with a large percentage of money losing accounts.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/what-happens-if-safety-net-clinics.html#comment-89999 Anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/what-happens-if-the-safety-net-clinics-start-refusing-to-see-medicare-or-medicaid-patients.html#comment-89999 If physicians refuse to accept substandard payment for their services, and patients who can't find doctors get frustrated, and complaints go to legislators and media outlets write articles about it, maybe payment levels will increase to appropriate levels to address the increasing public outrage. <br/><br/>Imagine that. <br/><br/>Or we could just pass a law forcing docs to take medicare/medicaid and watch physicians stop taking insurance completely. Don't think that helps things much. If physicians refuse to accept substandard payment for their services, and patients who can’t find doctors get frustrated, and complaints go to legislators and media outlets write articles about it, maybe payment levels will increase to appropriate levels to address the increasing public outrage.

Imagine that.

Or we could just pass a law forcing docs to take medicare/medicaid and watch physicians stop taking insurance completely. Don’t think that helps things much.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/what-happens-if-safety-net-clinics.html#comment-89998 Anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:27:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/what-happens-if-the-safety-net-clinics-start-refusing-to-see-medicare-or-medicaid-patients.html#comment-89998 This is a big problem<br/>I do not know of any physician colleagues who went into medicine to NOT take care of people.<br/>It is bad enough how private insurance treats those of us in primary care.<br/>However, the "safety net", ie medicare and medicaid is outright abusive when it comes to primary care.<br/>Although recently increased to, I think, 37 dollars, the reimbursement from New York State medicaid for a 99213 was barely 30 dollars for many years. And to make matters worse, it takes an average 120 days to get that money.<br/>It is outright obscene.<br/><br/>A FAMILY PRACTITIONER This is a big problem
I do not know of any physician colleagues who went into medicine to NOT take care of people.
It is bad enough how private insurance treats those of us in primary care.
However, the “safety net”, ie medicare and medicaid is outright abusive when it comes to primary care.
Although recently increased to, I think, 37 dollars, the reimbursement from New York State medicaid for a 99213 was barely 30 dollars for many years. And to make matters worse, it takes an average 120 days to get that money.
It is outright obscene.

A FAMILY PRACTITIONER

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/what-happens-if-safety-net-clinics.html#comment-89992 Anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:59:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/what-happens-if-the-safety-net-clinics-start-refusing-to-see-medicare-or-medicaid-patients.html#comment-89992 Atlas Shrugs. Atlas Shrugs.

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