Medicare

[Guest guest]

Have any private practice PT clinics opted out of Medicare and survived... I

am not only talking about from a patient load perspective but also referral

sources?

I opened a clinic 2 years ago and as I went around introducing myself and

the new clinic the 3rd question the physicians asked me was, " Do you take

Medicare? "

We've been talking about it and when you factor in all of the time spent

dealing with denials after seeing them for 3 months and all of the time the

billing office spends to pre-authorize and find out if they have been seen

somewhere else yadda yadda yadda I am sure that I am preaching to the

choir.any way I'm fairly certain that I am losing money on each patient.

I'd be better off to just see them for free and save myself all of the man

hours, paperwork, and FAX machine toner etc.

Jeff LePage, PT

First Choice Physical Therapy

Wasilla, Alaska