“These clinics pick off the easy, high margin care and then punt when push comes to shove. They have less interest in your well being and more in your wallet.”
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Day: January 12, 2015
Medicaid Rates Are Going Down & There Is Nothing Doctors Can Do About It
By Shirie Leng, M.D.
Medicaid is a federal program for the very poor implemented by grants to states, which do the administration. Medicaid typically pays doctors about 60 percent of what Medicare pays. In Florida, a typical primary care visit might pay the doctor $32. In Alabama, doctors who agree to be the primary care physicians of record for Medicaid patients get a whopping $2.60 per beneficiary per month, a fee with which the doctor has to maintain 24 hour office availability and use EMR.
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