Originally Posted by dgrauman
This is the main reason we have opted out of Medicare and Medicaid. The same thing happened in this state, only fraud charges brought by Medicare against a physician for giving away services for free. They finally backed down after every MD in the state threatened to quit Medicare. Moral for me: don't take government money, don't sign contracts, don't promise your lowest charges to anyone.

This is what I don't understand. Don't want to say too much since above sounds like it would be called antitrust or whatever, but not two doctors have threatened that here. I don't understand how that would not work as far as negotiating. But, it seems that the board would have a lot of leverage with suspending licenses while there would be mass havoc on the infrastructure of patient care for weeks.


Bert
Pediatrics
Brewer, Maine