Fed Up With Bureaucracy, A Family Doc Gives Up On Tricare

One more article on how complex it is for a physician to get paid...from the government....and this is a plan for retired military individuals...BD 

Chalk up one more casualty to the growing hassles of medical bureaucracy. Ben Brewer, Illinois family doc and WSJ.com columnist, says he’s stopped accepting an insurance plan that covers current and retired military personnel and their families.

“It seemed too often that I was doctoring with one hand tied behind my back,” Brewer writes. The paperwork was “three times the work” of other health plans, including Medicaid.

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