[STARWISE]

"It’s no joke for doctors that today marks the day that Medicare’s 21% reimbursement pay cuts were to go into effect."

[grame]

I am a postal worker who's car was hit by a man who ran a yield sign. My dr, hosp, physical therapy, xray, bills are all being paid at 25 - 50 percent. I'm embarrassed. They have denied the er hosp bill twice already because they didn't put a number in the right box. I have to have 3 people's permission to go to a specialist, or have an xray. And the most interesting part is that they will be reimbursed for all charges they have paid by the other guys insurance. If this is what's coming, it is not good.

[STARWISE]

...PING!

[21twelve]

“It’s tough,” Andrew LaMar, spokesman for the California Medical Association, told the Health Blog. “Imagine if every month you didn’t know what your paycheck is going to be.”

Well, being self-employed, I deal with that all the time! Or, for the unemployed - they would be happy with any paycheck.

I think a better statement would have been “Imagine if every month you didn’t know what the government would declare your wage to be?” (Didn’t FDR do that for every single industry and service?)

[Chode]

[doc maverick]

I have a framed payment from medicare for services rendered.
Amount=11cents

[NautiNurse]

Let's take the example of something like diabetes, one of, uh, a
disease that's skyrocketing, partly because of obesity, partly
because it's not treated as effectively as it could be. Right now if
we paid a family -- if a family care physician works with his or her
patient to help them lose weight, modify diet, monitors whether
they're taking their medications in a timely fashion, they might
get reimbursed a pittance. But if that same diabetic ends up
getting their foot amputated, that's $30,000, $40,000, $50,000...
immediately the surgeon is reimbursed.--Barack Obama 8/11/2009

One of many blatant Obama lies. In reality, Medicare reimbursement for those evil physicians is $800-$1000, inclusive of all post-op visits for 90 days, before the 21% Medicare decrease.

If you go to a New York ER with a heart attack, NY Medicaid will pay the greedy ER doctor $17.00.

[SunkenCiv]

Yesterday...

...Medicare's 21% reimbursement pay cuts were to go into effect. Congress left for its Easter recess without voting to delay the scheduled April 1 start of lower payments to docs.

[GeronL]

A lot of doctors and pharmacies are going to try and drop Medicare but the new healthcare law forces states to try and stop that from happening.