1. Your personal medicare payroll taxes are likely going up. (If you make more then $200,000 as an individual or $250,000 as a household.) 2. Medicaid compensation gets sweeter for primary care physicians, not EM providers (but probably not that much sweeter since Minnesota is already a well funded state.) *3. Uncompensated care gets whacked! This will affect Emergency Medicine. (We'll hopefully make up for it in 2014 when a whole new batch of previously uninsured individuals receive medicaid funding. But again, the "make-up" will be limited because MN already funds medicaid fairly broadly.)
Summary of my Summary: You may pay more in medicare taxes, ECC will see a reduction in "uncompensated care" payments.
1. Your personal medicare payroll taxes are likely going up. (If you make more then $200,000 as an individual or $250,000 as a household.)
ReplyDelete2. Medicaid compensation gets sweeter for primary care physicians, not EM providers (but probably not that much sweeter since Minnesota is already a well funded state.)
*3. Uncompensated care gets whacked! This will affect Emergency Medicine. (We'll hopefully make up for it in 2014 when a whole new batch of previously uninsured individuals receive medicaid funding. But again, the "make-up" will be limited because MN already funds medicaid fairly broadly.)
Summary of my Summary: You may pay more in medicare taxes, ECC will see a reduction in "uncompensated care" payments.