(07-29-2018, 09:01 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-29-2018, 08:41 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Since you like questions so much, how many carrier/physician contracts have you read in your life?

Zero. But I have processed Medicaid claims in an earlier life. My wife is a doctor and she used to take Medicaid but now she does not. We have a friend who takes Medicaid. trust personal experience with the fact that her doctor is free to choose to take Medicaid or not take it.

Unless your a pediatrician and literally over half the kids in America have only medicaid. Can you afford to cut off half of your potential clients? Can you afford to keep them in a capitation model where you get $2.13 per a kid per a month (not a joke, go look up Alabamas rate).

Maybe you could try and sue the government since the mandate for the states is that medicaid will pay enough to provide the same level of access to physicians that non-medicaid patients have. But then you would find out that was already done, and the government just gets to do what it wants.

But be my guest and have universal healthcare just like Russia, Venzuela, Cuba etc. Just don't come crying to me that you have to bring your own gloves to the hospital because the nurse won't change them otherwise.

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