That is my plan, Adam. My practice is primarily Medicare. My intent will be not to stop taking it but to stop taking Medicare assignment. My patients are very responsible, for the most part, and I feel they will be good at paying their bills. I will even file their Medicare for them and likely will keep my charges in line with what Medicare approves. I just won't tolerate being penalized by Medicare.

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "