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Marilyn Tavenner RN, CMS acting adminstrator announces enaction of "Affordable Care" by asking physicians to provide care to elderly patients at their homes and get paid (by incentives) only by demonstrating "high" quality care and cost saving to the Medicare/Medicid program. The model expects doctors with their "army" of newly hired PA's ($80-90 K salary) and NP's ($90-100K salary) to go to patients home and provide care and at the same time save money !
At whose cost?
Obviously at the cost of Medicare patients and the doctors. Getting paid at 28 cents on a dollar, (that is constantly on the chopping board) we need to hire more staff to provide this care and then hope you to get paid for the visits ONLY if we demonstrate savings to the Medicare program and at the same time provide high quality care.
Wow! The Govt. must think all doctors with 20+ years of schooling must be dumb and never took math!
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