tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 6

Physician Notes: Is Medicare Hurting Your Business?

New survey reports disturbing numbers on Medicare impactAnesthesia practices should keep their Medicare business to a minimum, judging from data in a Jan. 14 report from the Medical Group Management Association.The more government health care business an anesthesia practice had, the higher the ratio of non-physician providers to physicians in the practice. The practices with the highest ratio of NPPs to doctors usually received 50 percent of their business from Medicare and other federal programs - and they tended to be smaller and less successful. The cost of NPPs as a percentage of a practice's total medical revenue...

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