tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 5

PHYSICIANS: Payment Fluctuations Don't Stop Physicians From Accepting Medicare Patients

Medicare acceptance relies on more than physician reimbursement, study suggestsPhysician advocates' fears that inadequate reimbursements will force practices to turn away new Medicare patients may not hold water.Physicians' willingness to accept new Medicare patients over the past few years shows insignificant effects from payment rate fluctuations, according to a study the Center for Studying Health System Change released Jan. 9. Nearly three-quarters of those physicians who participated in the survey reported that their practices were open to all new Medicare patients during 2004 and 2005--no significant change from acceptance levels during 2000 and 2001, the study reveals."Despite...

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