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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: neolib who wrote (214608)1/25/2007 1:10:40 PM
From: Katelew  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Declining medicare reimbursements is indeed a problem....govt. mandated for last 7 or 8 yrs. I think. Started during Clinton admin. as formulas were changed to rein in costs by tying reimbursement rates to GDP growth in some way.

I think the average differential right now is around 15% lower for Medicare and increasing nos. of docs are refusing to take new medicare patients.

Much, much bigger problem for Medicaid. Declining reimbursements there are close to gutting the programs, I've read.

I still would be shocked to know that somewhere a state medicaid program is paying for stomach stapling, as you mentioned.
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