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What's news? My mother stopped accepting Medicaid because they didn't pay spit and they were a pain a few years back.
Your Mom will be forced to accept it again in the future, I guarantee it. 6% of people on CD support hard labor or capital punishment for practitioners not accepting Medicare or Medicaid. The calls for social justice will be overwhelming. Private insurance policyholders and the uninsured will pick up the tab.
6%?! Better run for the hills... Free loaders will overwhelm us...
Then I guess they outta start paying more than $25 for a 45 minute visit.
Another 15% of those polled support revoking their license to practice either temporarily or permanently, the rationale being that the freeloaders naively believe that doctors are nothing more than greedy savant idiots who cannot function outside the field of practicing medicine. Another 3 or 4% I believe favor censuring doctors to be allowed to work in VA hospitals exclusively. Virginia legislators have already entertained the idea of mandatory acceptance of Medicare and Medicaid and some idiots even believe it should be expanded universally.
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The OP's headline is misleading and spin. READ THE ARTICLE! This has nothing to do with Medicaid payments or 'universal healthcare'. It's about a badly run ambulance service that survived when it had a monopoly but now can't compete against a better run competitor. The competitor is growing.
Universal health care and Medicaid would help ambulance companies as, according to the article, they currently don't get paid for uninsured patient emergency runs.
The OP's headline is misleading and spin. READ THE ARTICLE! This has nothing to do with Medicaid payments or 'universal healthcare'. It's about a badly run ambulance service that survived when it had a monopoly but now can't compete against a better run competitor. The competitor is growing.
Universal health care and Medicaid would help ambulance companies as, according to the article, they currently don't get paid for uninsured patient emergency runs.
“On a few isolated occasions, the company has had some payroll checks returned, which was because of deposits not being made by the government to the company’s bank account,” the DEMSI statement said. “Medicare and Medicaid represent about 65 percent of the billings for the company.”
Our UHC Medicaid system is not paying the company.
“On a few isolated occasions, the company has had some payroll checks returned, which was because of deposits not being made by the government to the company’s bank account,” the DEMSI statement said. “Medicare and Medicaid represent about 65 percent of the billings for the company.”
Our UHC Medicaid system is not paying the company.
Your assertion is flawed. A doctor in private practice can refuse to see Medicaid patients if they choose.
What you say is big government forcing people to provide a service. Not in this country in anyone's lifetime.
Yeah, it's amazing how your payments get delayed when your EMS service has been on probation and told to meet the minimum standards of the city and CMS in order to get paid and operate. You can't just pick people up and bill insurance companies...then complain when you don't get paid. The first sentence is the city management making the recommendation to suspend or shut them down because the company refused to meet minimum standards for quite awhile.
Congrats on not reading the article again.
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