If you can stand the humidity, this area of Florida is a good place to add new patients, as long as you like retirees. We get around 60 new patient calls for the two of us per month, most of whom we can't absorb. Some of the callers tell us we are their 4th or 5th office they've called with no one taking new Medicare. Many of the FPs are either no new Medicare or have gone non-par. A bigger part of our clientele is Medicare, so making a non-par decision is more risky. But so is getting creamed by MACRA.
