When A Doctor No Longer Accepts Medicare, Patients Left Holding the Bag
From the Kaiser Health News website
Pneumonia. Heart problems. High cholesterol. Betsy Carrier, 71, and her husband, Don Resnikoff, 79, relied on their primary care doctor in Montgomery County, Maryland, for help managing their ailments.
But after seven years, the couple was surprised when the doctor informed them she was opting out of Medicare, the couple’s insurer.
Patients can lose doctors for a variety of reasons, including a physician’s retirement or when either patient or doctor moves away. But economic forces are also at play. Many primary care doctors have long argued that Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors and people with disabilities, doesn’t reimburse them adequately and requires too much paperwork to get paid.
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