Betsy McCaughey was on Fox & Friends this morning, talking about 1,200 new pages of regulations for health care. Huge new reporting requirements for doctors treating medicare payments, including requirements that they discuss issues like obesity, even if it isn’t the reason for the doctor visit. And if the doctor doesn’t fulfill the new requirements, he can be fined.
How many doctors are going to start dumping their medicare patients now?
Maybe that will finally start waking people up. Nothing else has worked.
I don’t know how you can keep serving people you don’t make money on. There was something a few years ago my doc did (ekg or something) that he says he now sends to the hospital. The insurance companies won’t reimburse him now except a few bucks, but the hospitals they will, so he says, “Why do it?” It’s a rational decision on his part.