Why should this shock anyone. Of all the providers that are available in the US, the US Government has the worst payment record with the highest fraud rate. What are doctors supposed to do??
Texas doctors fleeing Medicare in droves | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
By TODD ACKERMAN
HOUSTON CHRONICLEMay 17, 2010, 11:02PM
Houston retiree Kathy Sweeney has trouble finding specialists who
take new Medicare patients and is worried about the possibility she one day could lose her regular doctor.
Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.
Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren't taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. Before 2007, the number of doctors opting out averaged less than a handful a year.
“This new data shows the Medicare system is beginning to implode,” said Dr. Susan Bailey, president of the Texas Medical Association. “If Congress doesn't fix Medicare soon, there'll be more and more doctors dropping out and Congress' promise to provide medical care to seniors will be broken.”
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