That's great! I love that the very organization that Obama is referencing to being "so great for so cheap" is losing tons on Medicare. Now there dropping it, at least at one clinic. Good for them. That's what we need. High profile places like Mayo and Cleveland Clinic telling Medicare to stick it.
I didn't like this moron: "Robert Berenson, a fellow at the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center in Washington, D.C., said physicians’ claims of inadequate reimbursement are overstated. Rather, the program faces a lack of medical providers because not enough new doctors are becoming family doctors, internists and pediatricians who oversee patients’ primary care."
So let me get this straight. We're trying to figure out better, cheaper ways of keeping our doors open but the problem is not enough PCPs....it has nothing to do with inadequate reimbursement? These people are completely out of touch with day to day medical practice.
I'm in the process of applying Medicare fees to every single one of my charges in 2009 to see what my actual salary would have been if I saw nothing but Medicare patients.
Last edited by scalpel; 01/03/2010 10:40 PM.
