As some of you may or may not know, Medicare reimbursements to Healthcare Providers have just taken another irreversible “Draconian Hit”, again!
Beginning this month, January 2006, reimbursements for patients now drop inexplicably further by 4.4% to healthcare providers.
This is the first of additional reimbursement cuts this year, 2006, planned by Medicare. These cuts come at a time when practice costs are rising 3.1 percent, resulting today in an overall impact of a 7.4% decline in the total value of Medicare physicians payments.
Your neighborhood Docs, already drowning in increasing overall practice costs; employee costs; regulatory suffocation; increased professional insurance premium costs; increasing equipment and supply costs, and a daily increase delay in receiving justified 3rd party Private Insurer reimbursements for services, now up to, in many cases 6 months to a year or even longer, particularly from public agencies connected with the State, and Federal Health care programs.
A truly devastating situation. This is no
Chicken Little scenario. This is real and getting worse.
What does this mean to you?
Dramatically less patient service, less patient accessibility, further runaway depletion of healthcare professionals here on our Central Coast, and across our State and Nation.
A healthcare crisis, which has always been bad, and getting worse, is now without question going to get even worse, as physicians and their families seek methods to survive, and sustain their patients and practices in a continuing intentional governmental spiraling down of healthcare in this Nation, State, and to our very local physicians, by our Federal and State Governments.
What to do?
Support your local Doctors, and then write and rise up and tell your Federal and State elected representatives, we have had enough, and we are not going to take it any longer! We deserve better healthcare, and we must insist that we have a system of health care, in which our medical providers, and we, their patients can live.
For further Information ... Please ...
A) Contact your local Physician
B) Otherwise: D.E. Regan, Ph.D.
drdregan@aol.com
