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Insurance cuts and inflation are driving the Kentucky doctor shortage, local physicians warn

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) – Kentucky is currently facing a critical shortage of nearly 3,000 physicians, leaving more than 100 of the state’s 120 counties without adequate healthcare coverage. Local physicians point to a growing insurance practice known as “downcoding”—where insurance companies systematically reduce doctors’ reimbursement claims without notice, overriding the provider’s original medical decisions.

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When Your Doctor Gets Overruled

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Independent ophthalmologist Dr. Thomas Stone discusses the threat insurer downcoding poses to patients and independent doctors, and what can be done to address it. Listen to the full podcast at Kentucky Focus

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Health insurers are overriding doctors at patients’ expense

Op-Ed / Team Aimpa

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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Medicare is Worth Saving: Why Medicare Reform is Critical for Physician Survival

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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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Dr. Rick Snyder: Want lower healthcare costs? Stop squeezing independent doctors

Op-Ed / Team Aimpa

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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Dr. Mitchell Hollander: Michigan’s health care pricing system needs reform

Op-Ed / Team Aimpa

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 mull Medicare physician pay reform to tamp down consolidation

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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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