Study Finds Doctors Taking More New Medicare Patients

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WASHINGTON The percentage of physicians who accept new Medicare patients has increased over the past fours years despite a slight drop in physicians' reimbursement rates, a study shows.

The findings suggest that doctors would not quit seeing Medicare patients if Congress had gone ahead with a proposed 4.4 percent cut in reimbursement rates in 2006, one of the authors said.

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Study Finds Doctors Taking More New Medicare Patients

Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a...

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