And guess how many doctor's offices and medical facilities have cut Medicaid from their accepted insurance since Obamacare took effect?Doctors dropping Medicare/Medicaid patients started well before Obamacare was passed.
Anyone care to weigh in on this since I don't know the exact percrtage?
I heard some 65% of Baylor clinics dropped Medicaid from their accepted insurance lists.
And the ACA was supposed to benefit poor and middle class?
I bet Parkland is loving Obamacare right about now. That's the only place left for tens of thousands of Medicaid patients who's primary doctors just gave them the boot.
Originally Posted by thathottnurse
Some years ago, while in Austin, I noticed some symptoms, and decided they should be checked NOW. There was an old-fashioned primary care practice near where I was staying, whose sign said they did walk-ins, so I stopped in.
In the course of filling out intake paperwork, I learned that they did NOT accept Medicare/Medicaid. They didn't say why.
A few years later, I noticed a sign at my then-primary care doctor's clinic, saying that, as of such-and-such date, they would no longer accept Medicare/Medicaid. I asked them about it. They told me, in so many words, that "They pay too low and they pay too slow." Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement rates for services rendered were just plain not enough to cover the actual costs of providing the services. Add to that that they took forever to pay claims, meaning that the clinic had a perpetual cash flow problem, and their decision makes absolutely perfect business sense.
NOBODY wants to admit the ground truth, that a doctor's office has to bring in enough money to cover all the costs of the business.
i don't think so.
