Medicare Pay Irks Physicians, Leaves Some Patients Stranded

Doctors’ payments through the Medicare program are scheduled to be lowered by 21 percent in March, prompting some physicians to drop Medicare patients or refuse taking on new ones, The Columbus Dispatch reports. Medicare has planned payment cuts for nine years, but Congress has acted to prevent cuts from going though, often at the last minute…

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on January 13th, 2010