It appears like this is a sure way to get rid of the remaining physicians who are still seeing Medicaid patients...BD
AUGUSTA (Jan 16, 2008): The Department of Health and Human Services wants to cut the Medicaid rate paid to doctors in hospital-based practices, and has included the $20 million proposal in the governor’s supplemental budget.
“In rural Maine, you have hospitals who employ all of them … every physician in the town,” said Steven Michaud, president of the Maine Hospital Association, representing the 39 hospitals in the state.
The irony, Michaud said, is many doctors in private practice won’t take new Medicaid patients because their reimbursement is so low, and now the state is about to penalize the hospital-based physicians practices that do see them.
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Hat Tip: Kevin, MD
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