>> And you give advice to young people on retirement plans??//
No, that isn't my business.
Were I still a CPA, I would be advising young people (as I did when I was in public practice) to use measures to avoid payments into SS.
>> So why don't all MD's drop Medicare ????? Where would they get the patients to backfill.???
Mostly, because they're doctors, not managerial accountants. Young patients become old patients, and they don't want to tell someone to hit the road because they turned 65.
Physicians are getting out the Medicare business at unprecedented rates. One in five are restricting the number of Medicare patients, and one in three PCPs are limiting the number of Medicare patients, according to a recent survey of 9,000 physicians by AMA.
>> There are practices that claim they see 50-100 patients a day per doctor....
I've never seen one and I've dealt with several hundred practices over the last 20 years. While many docs have days where they don't see new patients, physicals, or other time-consuming cases, I don't know of any physicians that see that many patients routinely. Certainly, such a doc would be far behind on charting.
It is possible, with the help of a PA or NP, to do this. |
