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Article: Medicare Cutbacks Threaten to Put Cardiac Care Out of Reach for Millions of Rural Americans
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- October 9, 2009
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To: HEALTH EDITORS
Contact: Margo L. Burrage, +1-734-878-2108 office, or +1-734-255-
5659 mobile, mburrage@cardiologycaa.com, for Guarding Hearts
Alliance
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 9/PRNewswire/ --Medicare regulatory
changes expected to be finalized in November - but overshadowed by
the partisan bluster of the ongoing health care debate - pose an
imminent threat to 80 million patients in America suffering from
heart disease, especially for the nearly one in four Americans over
the age of 65 living in rural areas.
Many cardiologists who operate in rural areas believe the
proposal will force them to close their outreach offices completely
since many of these operations run at a fiscal loss but ...