Jack Beller, MD, an orthopedic surgeon who practices in Chickasha, Okla., said low Medicare and Medicaid fees may drive physicians away from those programs, creating a physician shortage for the elderly and poor, according to a report in Norman Transcript.
Physicians face a 25 percent cut in Medicare fees in 2010 if Congress does not postpone the sustainable growth rate formula, as it has done for many years now.
If payments are reduced by that much, a survey shows that as many as 70 percent of doctors would stop seeing Medicare and Medicaid patients.
Read the Norman Transcript on the possible physician shortage.
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