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1. 13 percent of orthopedists plan to stop taking new Medicare and Medicaid patients.
2. 6 percent of orthopedists plan to stop seeing current Medicare and Medicaid patients.
3. Around half, 52 percent, of orthopedists report they will continue seeing current and new Medicare and Medicaid patients.
4. The remaining 30 percent of orthopedists haven’t decided how they’ll handle Medicare and Medicaid patients.
5. 37 percent of orthopedists in 2012 said they were planning to drop insurers who paid poorly.
6. Around 13 percent of orthopedists said they needed all payors, so none would be dropped.
7. Another 22 percent of orthopedists said they wouldn’t drop payors because “that’s inappropriate behavior.”
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