More doctors say no to Medicare

May 20, 2010 by Andrew

Hundreds of doctors in Texas are dropping out of the federal health care program for senior citizens as physician reimbursements for Medicare decline.

More than 300 Texas doctors have dropped the program in the past two years, including 50 in the first three months of 2010, the Houston Chronicle reported Tuesday.

The Texas Medical Association did a survey in 2008 that found 42 percent of Texas doctors surveyed said they were no longer accepting all new Medicare patients. Among primary care doctors, the percentage was 62 percent.

The dropoffs follow years of declining Medicare reimbursements, which led to a looming 21 percent cut in 2010. Congress has voted three times to postpone the cut, which is set to begin June 1.

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