Primary care doctors feeling pay pinch

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Primary care physicians salaries during 1996 rose only 1.4%, according to Medical Group Management Assn., with average salaries at $136,217. Specialists' salaries increased to an average of $221,544, an increase of 2.5%. Specialists within the managed care environment averaged $194,000, while other specialists' salaries averaged $261,000. Physicians' salaries are leveling off, according to analysts, because of there is an increase of physicians who are being paid for undercapitated contracts.

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Dual-eligible duel

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The American Medical Association (AMA) is joining with state medical societies to secure Medicaid payments for doctors who treat the nation's 6 million poor Medicare patients. Eighteen states are refusing to make supplementary Medicaid payments after Medicare makes its reimbursement to the physicians who care for dual-eligible patients. The AMA-State Medical Society Litigation Center is pursuing its case with federal health officials and in court.

Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Care Services, Health Programs-State, Care and treatment, Editorial, Laws, regulations and rules, Finance, Services, Political activity, Medical care, Poor, American Medical Association, Health policy, Medicaid, State government, Medicare

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