For Kentucky patients, finding a doctor has rarely been more difficult. More than 100 of the state’s 120 counties are dealing with a federally designated shortage of health professionals. By the end of this decade, Kentucky will face a projected shortage of nearly 3,000 doctors. Two of the state’s health insurers — Aetna and Cigna […]
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AIMPA President Dr. David Eagle speaks with Dr. Terry Cronin about the pressures facing independent physicians and the need to reform Medicare reimbursement to support independent, affordable, personal care in the inaugural episode of VuMedi’s “Medicare is Worth Saving” podcast.
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Healthcare costs are weighing heavily on Americans’ minds. A new Pew Research Center survey found that 73% of Americans consider the affordability of healthcare a “very big problem” for the country. Congress has noticed. In recent months, lawmakers have held a series of healthcare affordability hearings examining why healthcare costs are rising — and what
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Why does the same medical procedure or diagnostic test come with dramatically different price tags depending on where a patient receives it? Across Michigan, that’s not a theoretical question. It’s a daily reality ― and a major reason health care has become so expensive. A routine outpatient service performed in a hospital-owned facility can cost
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Lawmakers are mulling reform of how Medicare pays physicians, concerned that insufficient reimbursement in the federal insurance program is incentivizing consolidation and increasing healthcare costs. Physician pay has declined over the past two decades when accounting for inflation, spurring independent providers to be acquired by hospital systems rather than go it alone, provider witnesses told
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Payment disparities based on site of service were another universal complaint at the hearing. “My clinic is on the campus of a major hospital in Dallas,” said Rick Snyder, MD, a cardiologist in independent practice. “When I perform an echocardiogram in my office, Medicare pays my practice a technical fee of about $123. My patient’s
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