Medicare patients welcome.(Policy & Practice)(Brief Article)

Family Practice News;  February 1, 2006 ;     197 words ......their doors open to Medicare patients despite previous reductions...physicians willing to treat Medicare patients stabilized during the...Physicians' willingness to treat Medicare patients remained high, despite...their practices to new Medicare patients ...

Medicare patients welcome.(physicians reduced pay has not stopped their...

Internal Medicine News;  February 1, 2006 ;     197 words ......their doors open to Medicare patients despite previous reductions...physicians willing to treat Medicare patients stabilized during the...Physicians' willingness to treat Medicare patients remained high, despite...their practices to new Medicare patients ...

SENATE PROTECTS 350,000 NEVADA MEDICARE PATIENTS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 10, 2008 ;     167 words ......will prevent an enormous 10.6 percent cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients. Such a cut could have resulted in a reduction of the number of Medicare patients doctors see. Reid worked to move forward this bill that will help...

Medicare Patients' Access To Care Imperiled Says American College of...

U.S. Newswire;  January 21, 2003 ;     692 words ......their ability to provide services to Medicare patients as continued cuts in reimbursement...physicians who will no longer accept new Medicare patients in 2003 increased by 78 percent over...physicians who currently accept all new Medicare patients, only one in five will continue to...

Is Medicare killing private practitioners?: Doctors are leaving to work...

Daily Press (Newport News, VA);  November 5, 2006 ;     700+ words ......80 percent of his clientele were Medicare patients. Throughout the 1980s, his private...especially those who treat numerous Medicare patients, say they are worried about the cost...is lower or where there are fewer Medicare patients. Areas such as Hampton Roads -- especially...

Physicians still turning away new medicare patients

Pharmaceutical Representative;  October 1, 2002 ;     248 words ......physicians who are no longer taking new Medicare patients is 28% higher than one year ago...report they can no longer take new Medicare patients, an increase from last year's figure...keep their doors open and take more Medicare patients. When Medicare reimbursements do...

More doctors accept new Medicare patients despite lower payment: Study...

Charleston Daily Mail;  January 9, 2006 ;     439 words ......percentage of physicians who accept new Medicare patients has increased over the past fours...that doctors would not quit seeing Medicare patients if Congress had gone ahead with a...physicians to quit accepting new Medicare patients. The American Medical Association...

Doctors' revolt threatens Medicare patients' access.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  June 17, 2003 ;     700+ words ......on his hundreds of elderly Medicare patients. One shows him the old hot...nationwide who are turning away Medicare patients. Fearon, a family practitioner, still sees his longtime Medicare patients, but he and three of the four...

Medicare patients getting better care

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 20, 2003 ;     189 words ...Medical Briefing Medicare patients getting better care Compiled...January 20, 2003 Although Medicare patients are getting better treatment...report, the proportion of Medicare patients receiving appropriate care...

Doctors Accepting More Medicare Patients

AP Online;  January 9, 2006 ;     489 words ......percentage of physicians who accept new Medicare patients has increased over the past fours...that doctors would not quit seeing Medicare patients if Congress had gone ahead with a...physicians to quit accepting new Medicare patients. The American Medical Association...

Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Promises to Make Changes to Keep Medicare...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 31, 2002 ;     646 words ......problems or lose the right to treat Medicare patients, Palm Beach Gardens Medical...Medical will be allowed to treat Medicare patients beyond next week. The federal...has lost its ability to treat Medicare patients in the past four years...

RIGHT OF APPEAL GRANTED TO MEDICARE PATIENTS IN HMOS.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 31, 1996 ;     163 words ......judge has expanded the rights of Medicare patients in health maintenance organizations...have federal contracts to care for Medicare patients. Four million of the 38 million Medicare...that when HMOs denied services to Medicare patients, they were acting for the government...

Orthopedics practice caps number of Medicare patients

Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  January 12, 2006 ;     517 words ......decided it cannot afford to take new Medicare patients and urged them to complain to Congress...said they will no longer accept new Medicare patients because of smaller payments from...said that of the hundreds of new Medicare patients the practice gets each year, few...

AMA Voices Concern Over HMOs Dropping Medicare Patients.

PR Newswire;  July 8, 1999 ;     267 words ......intention to drop approximately 250,000 Medicare patients this year. This is in addition to...cut at the beginning of 1999. Many Medicare patients have not been able to join another...however, continue to treat their Medicare patients even though their payment updates...

MEDICARE CUTS PUT LOCAL DOCTORS "OVER A BARREL'; DOCTORS REACT TO CUTS IN...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  March 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ......he and other doctors who treat Medicare patients took Jan. 1. Medicare, the...to start turning away new Medicare patients because of lower reimbursement...may be unable to take new Medicare patients - making it harder for some...