Take a provision in the Baucus bill that would punish any physician whose "resource use" is considered too high. Beginning in 2015, Medicare would rank doctors against their peers based on how much they cost the program—and then automatically cut all payments by 5% to anyone who falls into the 90th percentile or above. In practice, this rule will only apply to specialists.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
The war on specialists
So the idea is to drive out specialists and focus on gp's, since the nation is short on them. How do we do this? Take away their ability to make some real money. Take away their ability to charge for their services. Read about it at the WSJ:
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