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I know that since the ACA I have not seen an increase in premiums. I have only seen an increase in services offered and more discounts on health related products. The level of care is better and the service by the Docs. office is better. They now have better (updated) systems and more employees.
Is this experience on planet earth, or on another planet?
Can you tell me ONE Obamacare product that has increased physician reimbursement and has helped to reduce overhead?
1. ALL of the Obamacare products reimburse poorly for physicians relative to other products
2. MOST new Obamacare enrollees are medicaid
3. Obamacare products have INCREASED paper work and pre-auths, which takes time for my staff
4. Most of the Obamacare products deny meds we routinely prescribe, requiring more time for "appeals" and "peer-to-peer" calls.
Me thinks you are not in the healthcare field at all and are certainly not a physician, as I know of no physician that has had the experience you describe.
Is this experience on planet earth, or on another planet?
Can you tell me ONE Obamacare product that has increased physician reimbursement and has helped to reduce overhead?
1. ALL of the Obamacare products reimburse poorly for physicians relative to other products
2. MOST new Obamacare enrollees are medicaid
3. Obamacare products have INCREASED paper work and pre-auths, which takes time for my staff
4. Most of the Obamacare products deny meds we routinely prescribe, requiring more time for "appeals" and "peer-to-peer" calls.
Me thinks you are not in the healthcare field at all and are certainly not a physician, as I know of no physician that has had the experience you describe.
Blue Cross Blue Shield 500 Gold plan reimbursed poorly?
Most of the "Obamacare" products are crap (Medicaid or low reimbursing insurance). As a physician, we cannot take these products, otherwise we would go broke, as we have to pay overhead, regardless of reimbursement.
As a result, those new medicaid enrollees or those acquiring "cheap" insurance (which is cheap for a reason) find out that they have access difficulties. Further, the money "looted" from Medicare to fund Obamacare made Medicare worse. We now have to "ration" medicare slots, which we never had to do before.
If the left was actually interested in covering those "uninsured", they would have simply enrolled those citizens in Medicare and saved a ton of money and headaches. But of course, "Obamacare" was never about healthcare, it was about redistribution of wealth and federal control over a segment of the economy. EPA mandated CO2 emissions are the same ruse, but targeting a different industry.
Wake up
All healthcare insurance, including employer sponsored large group healthcare plans, complies with the ACA, Obamacare.
You are perhaps referring to the lower graded individual plans which in many cases provide a lower reimbursement rate and thus a narrower network than an employer sponsored large group healthcare plan.
Seems to me, if I were a healthcare provider, I would be a tad more concerned with some conservative initiatives to eliminate or penalize by taxing the high quality employer sponsored healthcare plans which cover more than half of the insured population. Without substantial employer subsidy, it seems to me that healthcare provider reimbursement rates would be forced downward.
You are a physician? And you are refusing to see ACA patients? I find that hard to believe.
????
Believe it. I am very busy and my schedule is always full. Why in the world would I waste my time with a low reimbursing product that requires more time for my staff and generally patients that are non compliant and disagreeable?
I don't need to take these "products" (nor any other bad insurance products), so I don't.
I can choose to take a patient or not. Once you take a patient, you are stuck with them, barring any egregious activities on thier part.
Believe it. I am very busy and my schedule is always full. Why in the world would I waste my time with a low reimbursing product that requires more time for my staff and generally patients that are non compliant and disagreeable?
I don't need to take these "products" (nor any other bad insurance products), so I don't.
I can choose to take a patient or not. Once you take a patient, you are stuck with them, barring any egregious activities on thier part.
And when someone calls, and says they have Blue Cross Blue Shield 500 Gold coverage, you say????
What a flop. Obama and the Dems have really blown it on this one.
Death by a thousand or a million cuts. Watch and see. The costs of this thing are going to strangle it to death.
It has been a big flop in many ways. But I find it hard to believe that those with subsidies, Medicare, Medicaid and those with pre-existing disease are going to be complaining much. Those total numbers are not small.
My wife and I with disease have seen large benefits. My daughter was finally able to get coverage on her own courtesy of ACA.
I know that since the ACA I have not seen an increase in premiums. I have only seen an increase in services offered and more discounts on health related products. The level of care is better and the service by the Docs. office is better. They now have better (updated) systems and more employees.
This has been my experience too.
I am covered by my husband's employer's plan. Because my husband is older, he is eligible for Medicare and could retire. For this reason, I have tracked the price of individual plans before and after the ACA. The quality of individual plans have increased and my cost would have declined under the ACA had I needed to buy an individual plan. I do not qualify for any subsidy.
I am also aware that if I lived 1/3 mile to the north, in another county, my premium would be higher than what was quoted. My state has 13 regions. Those who live in areas with highly competitive healthcare systems generally pay less than those who live in less competitive areas.
I can appreciate that mileage varies within zip code, county and state.
All healthcare insurance, including employer sponsored large group healthcare plans, complies with the ACA, Obamacare.
You are perhaps referring to the lower graded individual plans which in many cases provide a lower reimbursement rate and thus a narrower network than an employer sponsored large group healthcare plan.
Seems to me, if I were a healthcare provider, I would be a tad more concerned with some conservative initiatives to eliminate or penalize by taxing the high quality employer sponsored healthcare plans which cover more than half of the insured population. Without substantial employer subsidy, it seems to me that healthcare provider reimbursement rates would be forced downward.
Not true. I'm in a grandfathered plan. For how long though..I don't know.
I know that since the ACA I have not seen an increase in premiums. I have only seen an increase in services offered and more discounts on health related products. The level of care is better and the service by the Docs. office is better. They now have better (updated) systems and more employees.
That was a mandate for enhanced data collection. They had to do that or face stiff fines.
I made some good money doing side work upgrading systems.
Almost as good as the Y2K scramble by companies.
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