With a 21 percent Medicare reimbursement rate cut set for Monday, unless Congress acts to block it, some doctors are threatening to refuse new Medicare patients in their practices.
Grand Junction, Colo. For the past nine years, physicians have faced a Medicare payment cut. Only this year, the cut may force physicians to close their doors to all medicare patients.
Fewer doctors are accepting Medicare patients, making it tough for people 65 and over to find a doctor when they retire.
NAPLES —Physicians left their practices Friday frustrated at their elected leaders in Washington for failing to reverse a 21 percent Medicare payment reduction that will now take effect Monday.The fallout is physicians may scale back on the number of Medicare patients they treat and some may drop out of the Medicare program entirely.The payment cut [...]
Feb. 26 — A 21 percent payment cut for Medicare physicians, set to begin next week, led Michael Bell to delay appointments for his elderly patients by four months.
The Senate has failed to pass a short-term payment patch for the Medicare physician payment rate, thus allowing a 21.2 percent payment cut to take effect on March 1 based on the sustainable growth rate, or SGR, formula. But the reduction is not expected to have an immediate effect on physician payments.
The Senate has failed to pass a short-term payment patch for the Medicare physician payment rate, thus allowing a 21.2 percent payment cut to take effect on March 1 based on the sustainable growth rate, or SGR, formula. But the reduction is not expected to have an immediate effect on physician payments.
CMS says claims from physicians will be held until March 15 to give the Senate more time to act. The AMA predicts a “Medicare meltdown.”
The program’s payments to doctors will fall by 21 percent starting on Monday, though Congress may soon act to undo the pay cut. It’s the latest reminder of a chronic problem for the federal government: figuring out how to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients.
Feb. 26 — A 21 percent payment cut for Medicare physicians, set to begin next week, led Michael Bell to delay appointments for his elderly patients by four months.
Drastic 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut will take place on Monday, March 1
A proposed 21 percent cut in Medicare physician payments scheduled for March 1 has been postponed until the end of the month. Representatives for Sen. Roger Wicker both announced the extension Thursday.
The New Brunswick government is removing the waiting period for medicare coverage in an effort to attract new immigrants.
Action for Older Persons, Inc. is presenting two seminars on Medicare advantage plans in Binghamton.
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center, a Long Island, N.Y.-based hospital, has agreed to pay $2.92 million, plus interest, to settle allegations that the hospital defrauded Medicare, the Justice Department announced today.