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The AMA fought the release of the information for 35 years. It will take a few weeks before the information can be analyzed. USA Today has already broken down average Medicare billing per doctor. Florida was the highest at $144,000. I remember reading a couple of years ago the average Medicare recipient in parts of Florida cost Medicare $18,000 per year or double the national average. The lowest state for reimbursements is Minnesota at $32,000 per doctor. Somebody will have to find out why Florida is more than 4x as high as Minnesota.
On one hand we hear so much about how challenging it is for some seniors to find a medical practice that accepts Medicare because of lousy payouts and yet in some areas, like Florida, billboards, print ads and TV show endless MDs targeting seniors and make clear they accept Medicare.
Cancer treatment is a hot specialty and treatment is often performed outside of a hospital. One MD can have serious thousands of active patients because most of the work is performed by Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and Techs. They do indeed recieve a 6 % bonus for meds administered on their premises. And sometimes those premises are rented space within hospitals.
There are now meds that will give some patients with advanced Cancer, a shot at a few extra weeks of life. These meds run $ 6 figures. Private insurance will not pay. Thus far, Medicaid will and when MDs get a cut...
So many ethical and financial considerations..... Treatment for the masses is rationed in every medical system.
One can only presume Sarah Palin, should she choose to be consistent, would declare a decline to pay for such treatment to be a death panel.
The AMA fought the release of the information for 35 years. It will take a few weeks before the information can be analyzed. USA Today has already broken down average Medicare billing per doctor. Florida was the highest at $144,000. I remember reading a couple of years ago the average Medicare recipient in parts of Florida cost Medicare $18,000 per year or double the national average. The lowest state for reimbursements is Minnesota at $32,000 per doctor. Somebody will have to find out why Florida is more than 4x as high as Minnesota.
Florida has the highest elderly population in the country. Minnesota is 33rd in terms of elderly population.
Florida also is either #1 or #2 on the "Most Medicare fraud" list, according to a 60 Minutes report last year. Not shocking to find out that south Florida leads the state in medicare fraud.
Florida has the highest elderly population in the country. Minnesota is 33rd in terms of elderly population.
Yup. My wife works on the industry down here. The billing system is corrupt beyond belief. And it was that way long before Scott contrary to the partisan op.
Yup. My wife works on the industry down here. The billing system is corrupt beyond belief. And it was that way long before Scott contrary to the partisan op.
I'm willing to bet that the billing corruption in FL goes back at least 20 years.
They're very likely billing insurers the same outrageous amounts for those under 65.
Doctors think they deserve to be millionaires.
Where I live--they are millionaires--and real estate barons.
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