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Medicare cuts impacting Ob.gyn. practice: seeing more patients that others turn away. (Some Limit Medicare Exposure).

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| February 15, 2003 | Silverman, Jennifer; Peters, Sally | COPYRIGHT 2009 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Ob.gyn. practices are being affected as physicians nationwide are rethinking treating Medicare patients.

Internists and family physicians have begun limiting the number of Medicare patients they take on, have dosed their practices to new Medicare patients, or--in some cases--have stopped caring for Medicare patients entirely.

The exact number of ob.gyns. who've recently made similar moves is not known. While some ob.gyns. are turning away Medicare patients, others maybe seeing an increase as Medicare patients lose access to their family physicians and internists.

For instance, in Pasadena, Calif., female Medicare patients are migrating to Dr. James…

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