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Originally Posted by Xavier
My point exactly - there are no facts yet. Believe me, the sky is not falling. Creative people adapt and amend and change. There is no point in getting all lathered up about something that hasn't happened yet.
When someone tells me to read something and then tells me how I should react to it then I automatically feel that I'm being sold a bill of goods because they don't want me to form my own opinion.
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There seems to be a lot of knee-jerk reaction to this on both sides. Xavier, you are assuming that this is related to the health care bill before Congress now and hence claim the facts are not known and we should wait until they are. However, in this case the facts are known since these cuts are taking place right now and hence do not include any additional future cuts that the House and Senate may come up with:
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RULE HIGHLIGHTS:
CMS’ final 2010 Physician Fee Schedule includes cuts to nearly all services performed by cardiologists, ranging from 10 to more than 40 percent over four years beginning Jan. 1, 2010. These cuts are separate from current health reform efforts and do not include the 21.2 percent Medicare physician payment cut due to the sustainable growth rate (SGR).
The impact on individual cardiovascular practices is causing many practices to take drastic measures according to a recent survey:
60 percent of private practice cardiology plans staff layoffs
46 percent of private practice cardiology plans to eliminate service lines
17 percent of private practice cardiology will stop accepting Medicare
39 percent are considering integration into a hospital system
http://www.acc.org/advocacy/advoc_is...rulecmscut.cfm
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