[bronxville]

Makes very valid and extremely scary points. Is this the crisis?

[grame]

I'm on Gov’t Workman's Comp because someone ran a sign and tboned me. Some of my bills they are paying at only 15 to 25% of what is billed. Many, many docs won't take me as a patient, and those that do are frustrated by the hoops we continually have to jump through, and how many we have to jump through depends on who we get on the phone that day. I'm embarrassed to go but it is necessary right now.

[therut]

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.