{"id":261,"date":"2015-08-02T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=261"},"modified":"2015-08-02T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T19:12:08","slug":"medicare-headaches-are-pushing-doctors-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Medicare headaches are pushing doctors away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Ted A. Bailey,\u00a0www.santacruzsentinel.com)<\/p>\n<p>The reason I\u2019m writing this article is to help explain why so many doctors are retiring early, closing their practices or refuse to take Medicare patients. The government has gotten so involved in the business of health care it\u2019s making it nearly impossible for the individual doctor to stay in practice if they are trying to follow all the government\u2019s rules and requirements to continue seeing patients.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure all of you have had some experience with your doctor where insurance was involved. Either the doctor wouldn\u2019t take it because he wouldn\u2019t be reimbursed or even if he did, he would not be compensated for his time.\u00a0Here are a couple of examples. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/opinion\/20150801\/ted-a-bailey-medicare-headaches-are-pushing-doctors-away\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Ted A. Bailey,\u00a0www.santacruzsentinel.com) The reason I\u2019m writing this article is to help explain why so many doctors are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}