How would Medicare for All affect pathology salaries?

[Pathological_Liar]

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The obvious answer is "negatively", but I'm curious if there's any consensus on how path specifically would be affected. I would speculate that with an average private practice payor mix (~45% CMS?), assuming an average 40% disparity in CMS and private insurance rates, and 50% overhead, medicare for all would result in a very rough estimated ~35% decrease in pathology salaries. So an average current salary of $290,000 would drop to $188,500. Any other thoughts on this?

I suppose you could argue that medicare would reduce business expenses from an HR standpoint and may mitigate some percentage of bad debt / uninsured / unreimbursed work, so maybe "only" a 25% cut?

 

[clinicallycorrelated]

Canada has Medicare and salary is 262USD to 308USD based on experience. 10 weeks vacation. CME $6000 a year.

Single payer is not all doom and gloom, please chill.

 

[AZpath]

If MC for all happens , the entire system of payment may change.
The Medicare for all that the politicians talk about suggests a similar MC deal for patient's but not physicians.
Hard to estimate and not worth trying.