How many doctors take Medicare? According to this article, in Texas, 58%. Thank 
goodness Congress acted on the legislation yesterday not to cut physician compensation, but this is the picture here as it stands today in Texas. The numbers shown are from the Texas Medical Association and you can see from the picture what is evolving on the stats on how many take “new” Medicare patients. BD
Only 58 percent of doctors in the state now accept new Medicare patients, according to a recent survey by the Texas Medical Association, down from an estimated 90 percent before 1990. Among primary-care doctors, the percentage is 38 percent.
More Texas doctors opting out of Medicare | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
I extrapolated this nice linear graph and zero percent of physicians take Medicare in 2020.
ReplyDeleteIf GPs have the same linear dynamics, zero percent will take new Medicare patients by 2012.
Ed Sodaro MD