We're talking Medicaid not Medicare. Medicare isn't available to women under 40. Five times the number of doctors will refuse new Medicaid patients than they will private insurance patients.
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > But why would it be any different than it is now? Private insurers > give a lot more grief to physicians than Medicare does. Which is a > problem, really, there is a fair bit of billing fraud in the Medicare > system that they are working to bring down. Many physicians may not > like the reimbursement rates provided by Medicare but if anything > Medicare should be faulted for being too liberal with the claims it > accepts, not the other way around. Private insurance companies are the > ones requiring pre-approval for everything under the sun and making > doctors jump through hoops to show medical necessity before approving > things. All available evidence points to it becoming easier to get > treated under new regulations, not harder ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:309754 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
