Makes very valid and extremely scary points. Is this the crisis?
I agree with the physician totally. We are barely keeping our doors open now. The .gov delayed our Medicare payement for 2 weeks and we had to borrow money for the first time in 36 years to make pay roll. My pay the first 3 months of this year have been cut almost in half. I am making 55,000 a year this year if this keeps up. This is with increased work load. I did 60,000 more care last year increasing my patient load from 32 a day to 50. This is insane. We have 60% medicare and medicaid patients. That is our problem. We have about only 5% private pay. We collect 95% of our private pay charges and on average the private insurance plus the .gov is around 60%. I do not know what is going to happen. We may have to close. It is getting desperate out here.