The survey includes responses from 1,311 physicians.
Here are 13 statistics on how reform law has affected physician practices:
• No effect — 46.4 percent
• Collecting deductibles have become more challenging — 25.1 percent
• I’m seeing more chronic-needs patients — 15.8 percent
• I see more patients than I used to – 15. 7 percent
• I have joined/planning to join an accountable care organization — 15.1 percent
• I’ve been dropped by certain insurers — 10.7 percent
• My practice will become a patient-centered medical home — 10 percent
• It has forced me to drop out of Medicare, Medicaid or other programs — 9 percent
• My practice has hired more physicians — 7.7 percent
• I no longer take Medicare patients — 6.5 percent
• My practice has become hospital-owned — 4.3 percent
• I am no longer accepting new patients — 3.1 percent
• It has boosted my business tremendously — 1.8 percent
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