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Family Doctors in US Fed Up With Insurance Hassles, Would Like to Call It Quits
In the survey conducted by the Physicians' Foundation, almost half of the primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative.
The foundation sent questionnaires to more than 270,000 primary care doctors and more than 50,000 specialists nationwide.
Of the 12,000 respondents, 49 percent said they'd consider leaving medicine. Many said they are overwhelmed with their practices, not because they have too many patients, but because there's too much red tape generated from insurance companies and government agencies.
With lower reimbursement from insurance companies and the cost of malpractice insurance skyrocketing, these health professionals say it's not worth running a practice and are changing careers. Others say they're going into so-called boutique medicine, in which they charge patients a yearly fee up front and don't take insurance.
Already over a third of those surveyed have closed their practices to Medicaid patients and 12 percent have closed their practices to Medicare patients. That can leave a lot of patients looking for a doctor.
And if many physicians do eventually opt out, that could be devastating to the health care industry.
"We couldn't survive that," says Dr. Walker Ray, vice president of the Physicians Foundation. "We are only producing in this country a thousand to two thousand primary doctors to replace them. Medical students are not choosing primary care."
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07/06/2009
Is it just insurance primary care doctors are fed up with. Or are there other issues out there as well that are leading to discontent. I'm a reporting working on a story on this
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maheshjariwala(Guest)
01/19/2009
As I am Dr Mahesh Jariwala MD Gynaec from india to reduces the hospital cost by very early discharge and taking care patients by self and other solution to decrease paper work is to use universal software that i am using Dr has to enter only the diagnosis and treatment patient dicides the complain by clicking their complains'and examination findings by nurse after studying the case Dr has to treat and immediately doctor can give total documents generated by software. |
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