Doctors Refusing New Medicare Patients?

My friend is a GP and we always refer people back and forth to each other. He just mentioned to me last week that he really doesn't want any more Medicare patients. He has too many in his mix.

He did tell me he has an associate that will accept them.
 
In the future, most PCP's will be PA's or NP's with a doc to oversee. That is the only model that really works with low reimbursement and not just from Medicare & Medicaid.

The bigger challenge is the 80 million or so boomers that will turn 65 in the next 10 years and crush the health care market for gerontology.

Pain management practices are like magnets for seniors and many are having trouble staying above water due to the high demand from the gray panthers. Specialists, especially those in cardiology and endocrinology also have high utilization by seniors.

Even without cuts to Medicare there will be challenges. The newly appointed head of CMS has made it no secret he is in love with the NHS model and wants to move the country toward a single payer system. He has been given $10 billion to institute studies on cost effective treatment protocol. In other words, what is the cheapest way we can do this, and, do we really need to spend all that money on folks who won't be around much longer . . .
 

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