MedPage Today October 4, 2024
— Those still seeing Medicare patients struggle to stay in private practice
Will his independent practice be able to survive another Medicare payment cut? That’s what Terre Haute, Indiana internist Pardeep Kumar, MD, wonders each day as the next round of cuts looms.
“We have to see,” Kumar said in a phone interview. “We have around 40% of the population of patients that are on Medicare … Our overall ability to sustain as a private practitioner is significantly under distress because of these cuts.”
Can We Stay in Business?
Kumar and his wife, who is also an internist, are in private practice together, and each has taken on outside work at various points in order to keep the practice viable,...
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