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Travis_0004

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3. Medicare pays less

Reply to still_one (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 25, 2016, 07:09 AM

Oct 2016

Doctors for the most part will accept some medicare paitents, but medicare is not what gets the bills paid, so a lot of doctors will cap how many medicare patients they will accept.

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47% of Oahu MDs Refusing New Medicare Patients [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2016 OP

A lot of that happens also in Texas. In other words, they only want to accept patients with means still_one Oct 2016 #1

Medicare pays less Travis_0004 Oct 2016 #3

I understand that, but the point I was making is there are some states like Texas have still_one Oct 2016 #4

Thus Sherman A1 Oct 2016 #2