It is a statistical impossibility for any president to have policies which consistently undermine and destroy everything which is moral, good, and productive for America as has been the case with Obama's presidency given the amount of resources at his disposal and having such a vast pool from which to hire or contract with highly educated and experienced advisors, lawyers, consultants, economists, and researchers. The average American, many who have little to no college education, understand cause and effect. Many can foresee possible future unintended consequences.
But EVERY Obama policy has failed to do what is best for America and Americans and has 'unintended' consequences, which is statistically impossible.
The only plausible conclusion which can be reached is that what is perceived as Obama's 'failures' are actually failures by design.
Of course they have to accept it first. From what I’m hearing and reading is that a lot of medical professionals are not accepting ACA insurance or Medicare.
simple... don’t take medicare and see who blinks first.
Doctors not switching to EMR have a 1% medicare pay cut per year of noncompliance at a cap of 5% total in 2018. The 1% deductions began in 2013.
Our long time family physician, who had many loyal
patients, took early retirement because he did not want to be required to use the electronic media. What a loss
to hundreds of his patients. He was a doctor who would
call his patients in the late afternoon, early evening to see how they were doing, go over test results and so forth.
I don’t like this and have seen an old school family practitioner struggling with EMR screens, but OTOH, if they’re going to do business with the government.......
not sure because the article is very vague about the government requirement in question. inscos have been trying to disincentive paper filing of insurance claims for a long time. i think this is the requirement described by CMS. Like EFT and checks electronic 837 and 835’s are cheaper and easier to process. If you have insurance all records there are stored electronically. as all of your financial transactions at what ever bank you use. There are service companies and insco portals that have been set up to minimize the burden. Is there no cost to using paper for these transactions? errors causing adjustments, repayments, etc. very poorly written article.
My dentist quit taking Medicare patients. He said his overhead was higher than what he was getting paid.
Quitting was in effect, a pay raise.
More of a reason to get rid of Obamacare and Medicare.
The cost of EMR is greater than 1% for a small practice when you consider staff costs, and reduced efficiency.
EMR also increases privacy risks including liability from patient data breaches (HIPPA violations), and overexposure to minor errors considered as fraud by rapacious Medicare auditors.
Small practices will avoid new Medicare patients, drop Medicare and go to cash, or accept Medicare patients only for those needing realtively higher margin procedures.