Medicare and Medicaid

Findings from M.A. Shermak and co-authors broaden understanding of medicare and medicaid

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, October 9th, 2009

"With growth in numbers of abdominoplasty procedures performed, we studied our experience with reimbursement and factors that impacted reimbursement and indirectly access to care. From July 2004 to June 2007, 245 patients had abdominoplasty," researchers in the United States report.

"Demographic and financial variables were noted. Twenty different insurance plans were categorized as a single ''commercial insurance'' group in our analysis, and the other two study groups were ''self-pay'' and ''Medicare'' patients. Of the 245 patients studied, 87 paid for surgery (''self pay''), while 134 had commercial insurance, and 24 had Medicare. One hundred sixty patients (65%) had...

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Source: Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly (2009-10-09)

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