Tuesday, August 12, 2003
I'M FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND I'M HERE TO HELP YOU....
This column is a good description of how Medicaid has really screwed up here in the Peach State. My office manager tells me that the Acme Surgical Corp. has about $10,000 of Medicaid payments sitting in an account that we cannot reconcile with individual patients. This sort of thing, as well as the lousy reimbursement, are causing providers in my town to pull out of Medicaid. |
This column is a good description of how Medicaid has really screwed up here in the Peach State. My office manager tells me that the Acme Surgical Corp. has about $10,000 of Medicaid payments sitting in an account that we cannot reconcile with individual patients. This sort of thing, as well as the lousy reimbursement, are causing providers in my town to pull out of Medicaid. |
