Medicare Fee Schedule proposal 2023

[jettavr6]

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Has anyone seen the new proposal? About a 4% drop in reimbursement from 2022. This is unsustainable for private practice. My costs went up almost 15% since last year.

 

[Agast]

Reimbursement goes down while premiums go up. I feel sorry for my patients who are going to lose their doctors who no longer take Medicare.

Set up a long covid cash pay clinic. I’m half joking half serious. With stellate ganglion blocks, neuropathy meds, etc. Pain is already geared towards symptom management. Someone do this and report back on how it goes.

 

[nvrsumr]

My payroll costs are way up.

 

[bedrock]

Reimbursement goes down while premiums go up. I feel sorry for my patients who are going to lose their doctors who no longer take Medicare.

I do too. Medicare, Medicaid, and tricare patients don’t understand just how poorly their insurance pays.

I can’t completely drop them but I do plan to limit my patients on federal government insurance to just a few slots each day going forward.

 

[RoloTomassi]

I do too. Medicare, Medicaid, and tricare patients don’t understand just how poorly their insurance pays.

I can’t completely drop them but I do plan to limit my patients on federal government insurance to just a few slots each day going forward.

Feeling the same. They take so much time, too, explaining, on/off table. Considering making them PA-only patients, except procedures, so I'm not taking a loss. Sucks but I feel like it's better than dropping them.