DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 8 (August)

Benchmark of the Week: Nationwide acceptance of new Medicare patients

Most practices continue to accept all new Medicare patients, and specialists accept them at higher rates than primary care doctors despite continued stagnation in payments and the threat of pay cuts, according to cumulative surveys of physicians by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). The bold percentages above the bars show the average acceptance rate for each amount of new patients. Specialists are more likely to accept new patients as they are often referred on a case-specific basis and don't stay in the practice, as a patient does with a primary practitioner.

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