I am delighted for you. I am also left speechless at how terrible it must be to try to make a living if you are celebrating being paid at Medicare rates.
Forgive me if I just don't get it, but when I look at the Medical Management Institute tables of physician income, our income is pretty much right in there with that of most primary care physicians. But, if we had any significant Medicare practice, we long ago calculated we would have been bankrupt. How on earth is this possible? We see about 12 patients a day, and can't really do more because of their complexity. If we saw Medicare and charged each a 99215, we still wouldn't make it.
