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Re: Medicare Payments Cuts, Was Blues Paying "Second Procedure"From: Braun, R. Daniel (rbraun@iupui.edu)Mon Mar 18 04:49:09 2002
What do you mean? Our group delivers 3-5 Medicare patients a month. Dan R. Daniel Braun, MD There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee. Robert W Service -----Original Message----- From: Gerald P. Rodriguez [mailto:geraldpr@cybermesa.com] Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 3:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: Medicare Payments Cuts, Was Blues Paying "Second Procedure" Not to belittle the issue of getting paid fairly for a post-partum tubal ligation, but this morning's front page story in the N.Y. Times (see link below) is dynamite. It describes the train-wreck in progress with physicians in ever increasing number now refusing to care for Medicare patients. In addition to the 5.4% cut this January 1st, there is to be a further cut each year from now to 2005 for a total of a 17% cut for medical services! The American Academy of Family Practice says that 17% of family doctors are not taking new Medicare patients. Some orthopedic surgeons are now longer willing to see Medicare patients. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/health/policy/17HEAL.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/health/policy/17HEAL.html> No problem with obstetrics, but are any of you limiting your elderly gyn patients?
-- Gerald P. Rodriguez, M.D., FACOG Santa Fe
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