[Cordio]

My Internist in Asheville, NC. who see lots of medicare/medicade patients and is in an office alone, says last year he saw a total of 120 more patients and earned $8,000. less than the year before. Something’s got to give. He says he’s looking into going private.

My neighbor’s internist has a sign posted in his office: “We are no longer accepting any medicare or medicade patients.”

[EyeGuy]

In addition to the insulting reimbursements and onerous paperwork burden, our no-show rate for Medicaid patients approached 85%.

Not that the verb is (happily) in the past tense.

[Buggman]

It's gotten really bad for oxygen providers. On top of reimbursements going down, Medicare is demanding obscene amounts of documentation that require the hiring of more staff just to pull the archives.

We'll cut some incredible deals for those willing to pay cash, just to save us the man-hours.

Shalom.

[MWestMom]

My husband’s doctor started what he called VIP service. He is limiting himself to about 400 patients who are willing to pay $1500.00 extra per anum above and beyond insurance. You are supposed to get extra attention and service for the fee. This started at the first of the year and I told my husband at the time we were going to see doctors making moves to avoid the damage this healthcare bill would cause.