Medicare Cuts Could Affect Hundreds Of Tennesseans
October 5, 2011
The new American Jobs Act, designed to stimulate the economy and cut deficit, will take its funding from already-existing programs, such as Medicare, leaving these programs’ budgets hurting. The cuts will cause higher write-offs for doctors, leaving many healthcare providers wondering if they will be able to afford seeing Medicare patients. An increase in refusal to see Medicare patients could leave as many as one million recipients without a primary doctor.
Yesterday, News Channel 5 interviewed Dr. Newton Allen, Jr., who regularly sees numerous patients covered by the government’s healthcare. He said, “I have Medicare patients, and they’re apologetic when they look at the bill and they see what’s written off. They say ‘how can you [afford to] practice?”’
Founding attorney, Lee Coleman, with the Tennessee Insurance Dispute Lawyers at Hughes & Coleman, recently commented on cuts to the Medicare system by asserting that any monetary reduction in payments by the system to doctors and hospitals should not affect the treatment patients receive.
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