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Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare Cuts to Physicians Will Harm Arkansas Seniors
June 18th, 2007
The American Medical Association (AMA) National House Call campaign came to Arkansas today to draw attention to an imminent access to care problem for Arkansas' nearly 444,000 Medicare patients. The government will cut Medicare physician payments 10 percent on January 1, 2008, forcing physicians to limit the number of new Medicare patients they can treat. "Arkansas has a huge Medicare population -- nearly one out of six state residents -- that will be negatively affected by Medicare cuts to physicians," said AMA Board Member Ardis D. Hoven, M.D. "According to the AMA's new physician survey, 60 percent of physicians say they will be forced to limit new Medicare patients...
Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2007-06-18)
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