Dual Eligible Payments to Be Partially Restored in 2013
Health care providers in Texas who treat dual eligible patients — those who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits — will get some relief in 2013.
This week, state Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen, took physicians and hospital officials from the Rio Grande Valley to meet with state leaders in Austin, with the goal of getting state health leaders to restore full payment of dual eligible patients' $140 Medicare deductible.
The delegation came away with an agreement to reinstate the deductible starting Jan. 1, 2013, state officials confirmed.
Elderly poor account for most of Texas' dual eligible patients — those old enough ...
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audrey fisher
This is the only way to get the attention of lawmaker's: the self-imposed limits by TX legislator's hurts Physicians. Really? No real mention of the patient who is denied the healthcare by those legislator's who supposedly represent the folks in TX...and in order to assure that Perry and his gang of idiots can prove that they hate the Fed $$$$ that they can not use for some idiotic purpose, then they deny patient health care.
It goes back to a NewYorker article from 2010 in which the Physicians in the McAllen, TX region are some of the "biggest abuser's" of the Medicare / Medicaid dollars - why, because they can - they admit that they run their Medical Practice based on $$$$ not necessarily medical need. And now we have someone complaining because they are leaving $$$ on the table.
Sad, to many in TX - medicine is rarely about Patient's, but instead how to pad their bottom line.