Doctors Leaving Medicare System

[Billy_Kinetta]

Mine's been out for a decade. He is a happy man.

Risk of ‘Mass Exodus’ of Doctors from Medicare

 

[tyroneweaver]

Can't wait until the dems decide they need to take over the farms cause some idiot in East Side St. Louis is starving to death.

 

[jon_berzerk]

as sure as the sun sets

it is on its way

 

[guno]

Mine's been out for a decade. He is a happy man.

Risk of ‘Mass Exodus’ of Doctors from Medicare

How dare they pay based on the quality of services!


Before MACRA, Medicare used a fee-for-service payment system, reimbursing separately for each individual service provided, without regard to the quality of the care. The new system will reward doctors for providing high-quality, efficient care that leads to better patient outcomes, and penalize those who fail to do so.


MACRA creates two pathways for physician payment. There’s the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which will pay doctors based on how they score on a number of performance metrics relative to their peers. The second pathway will reward doctors who participate in Alternative Payment Models (APMs) meant to promote high-quality, cost-efficient care by incentivizing doctors to work together toward a common purpose: improving patient outcomes while eliminating unnecessary spending.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Mine's been out for a decade. He is a happy man.

Risk of ‘Mass Exodus’ of Doctors from Medicare

How dare they pay based on the quality of services!


Before MACRA, Medicare used a fee-for-service payment system, reimbursing separately for each individual service provided, without regard to the quality of the care. The new system will reward doctors for providing high-quality, efficient care that leads to better patient outcomes, and penalize those who fail to do so.


MACRA creates two pathways for physician payment. There’s the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which will pay doctors based on how they score on a number of performance metrics relative to their peers. The second pathway will reward doctors who participate in Alternative Payment Models (APMs) meant to promote high-quality, cost-efficient care by incentivizing doctors to work together toward a common purpose: improving patient outcomes while eliminating unnecessary spending.

They can do what they like.

Doctors can decline involvement.

Everybody's happy.

 

[DGS49]

You old fukkers may recall that the reason why HillaryCare cratered in the 90's was because the proposed law PROHIBITED doctors from opting out of the system.

But clearly, this is the direction that America's Leftists want to go.

And when HRC has the opportunity to nominate a couple USSC justices, you can be damned sure that the Constitution will be found to have a provision allowing Government to do just that. Doctors will be prohibited by REGULATION from refusing to treat Medicare patients at "schedule" rates. It will be a criminal offense.

 

[jon_berzerk]

Mine's been out for a decade. He is a happy man.

Risk of ‘Mass Exodus’ of Doctors from Medicare

How dare they pay based on the quality of services!


Before MACRA, Medicare used a fee-for-service payment system, reimbursing separately for each individual service provided, without regard to the quality of the care. The new system will reward doctors for providing high-quality, efficient care that leads to better patient outcomes, and penalize those who fail to do so.


MACRA creates two pathways for physician payment. There’s the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which will pay doctors based on how they score on a number of performance metrics relative to their peers. The second pathway will reward doctors who participate in Alternative Payment Models (APMs) meant to promote high-quality, cost-efficient care by incentivizing doctors to work together toward a common purpose: improving patient outcomes while eliminating unnecessary spending.

They can do what they like.

Doctors can decline involvement.

Everybody's happy.

Doctors can decline involvement.

well as of now they can

we will see what happens in the future

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Mine's been out for a decade. He is a happy man.

Risk of ‘Mass Exodus’ of Doctors from Medicare

How dare they pay based on the quality of services!


Before MACRA, Medicare used a fee-for-service payment system, reimbursing separately for each individual service provided, without regard to the quality of the care. The new system will reward doctors for providing high-quality, efficient care that leads to better patient outcomes, and penalize those who fail to do so.


MACRA creates two pathways for physician payment. There’s the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which will pay doctors based on how they score on a number of performance metrics relative to their peers. The second pathway will reward doctors who participate in Alternative Payment Models (APMs) meant to promote high-quality, cost-efficient care by incentivizing doctors to work together toward a common purpose: improving patient outcomes while eliminating unnecessary spending.

Yeah,

And I have a document that says my car should run 20 years. Don't mean it's happening.

We've been at this five years and spending has not dropped one cent. In fact it is getting worse.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Mine's been out for a decade. He is a happy man.

Risk of ‘Mass Exodus’ of Doctors from Medicare

How dare they pay based on the quality of services!


Before MACRA, Medicare used a fee-for-service payment system, reimbursing separately for each individual service provided, without regard to the quality of the care. The new system will reward doctors for providing high-quality, efficient care that leads to better patient outcomes, and penalize those who fail to do so.


MACRA creates two pathways for physician payment. There’s the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which will pay doctors based on how they score on a number of performance metrics relative to their peers. The second pathway will reward doctors who participate in Alternative Payment Models (APMs) meant to promote high-quality, cost-efficient care by incentivizing doctors to work together toward a common purpose: improving patient outcomes while eliminating unnecessary spending.

They can do what they like.

Doctors can decline involvement.

Everybody's happy.

Doctors can decline involvement.

well as of now they can

we will see what happens in the future

13th Amendment
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

You will see it hit SCOTUS per the above should things get dicey.

It's unlikely the Left would want to go there, because it would also revisit the issue of public accommodation.

 

[kiwiman127]

Mine's been out for a decade. He is a happy man.

Risk of ‘Mass Exodus’ of Doctors from Medicare

How dare they pay based on the quality of services!


Before MACRA, Medicare used a fee-for-service payment system, reimbursing separately for each individual service provided, without regard to the quality of the care. The new system will reward doctors for providing high-quality, efficient care that leads to better patient outcomes, and penalize those who fail to do so.


MACRA creates two pathways for physician payment. There’s the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which will pay doctors based on how they score on a number of performance metrics relative to their peers. The second pathway will reward doctors who participate in Alternative Payment Models (APMs) meant to promote high-quality, cost-efficient care by incentivizing doctors to work together toward a common purpose: improving patient outcomes while eliminating unnecessary spending.

They can do what they like.

Doctors can decline involvement.

Everybody's happy.

And that fact contributes to why Americans pay far more for healthcare than the rest of the world and it's not even the best in the world.
People love to bitch, bitch, bitch about the cost of their healthcare insurance but the US's cost of healthcare has always been much more expense than what the rest of the world pays and that was happening long before Obamacare.
Why do some people just love to get screwed over?
When you go buy a car, do you ask the salesman, if you can pay more?

 

[Arianrhod]

So how many of you spoiled brats are willing to pay your grand/parents' doctor bills if this becomes universal?

Yah, yah, let's see you post "My grand/parents are rich and don't have to worry about thousands of dollars of medical bills."

Go on.

 

[DGS49]

The reason why hospital care for the elderly has been so inflated is because, basically, SOMEONE ELSE is paying the bills.

When my dear grandmother had her final strokes and departed this world, she had been comatose in her home for six months, cared for by her daughters. The total medical expenses for this period were a doctor bill for $8.

If she went through the same ordeal today, she would have no different medical result, but would have died with a multi-million dollar invoice stapled to her forehead.

Where government or "insurance" are willing to pay, the medical world can be infinitely creative at finding ways to spend money for "healthcare." Except that Government has no money (it's all ours, actually), and insurance only returns premiums that it has already collected. Someone else's premiums, usually.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

The reason why hospital care for the elderly has been so inflated is because, basically, SOMEONE ELSE is paying the bills.

When my dear grandmother had her final strokes and departed this world, she had been comatose in her home for six months, cared for by her daughters. The total medical expenses for this period were a doctor bill for $8.

If she went through the same ordeal today, she would have no different medical result, but would have died with a multi-million dollar invoice stapled to her forehead.

Where government or "insurance" are willing to pay, the medical world can be infinitely creative at finding ways to spend money for "healthcare." Except that Government has no money (it's all ours, actually), and insurance only returns premiums that it has already collected. Someone else's premiums, usually.

It's just painful to read.

 

[Lewdog]

Can't wait until the dems decide they need to take over the farms cause some idiot in East Side St. Louis is starving to death.

The government already pays some farmers to NOT plant their fields, or for them to let some of their crops to die in the fields.