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Vasilena said,
June 13, 2012 @ 8:23 pm
My thought about ACO’s and pay for peracrmfnoe: The best patients will be Cherry Picked, the older population and those severely ill will less likely be offered dialysis, and those of us who can, will stop practicing or adjust their practice so as to limit medicare or medicaid exposure. We looked into forming an ACO..but it is not for our group..I have stopped trying to even keep up with the changing ACO req.: We are simply growing our group as large as we can: hopefully we will be too big to fail..Just like the automotive industry..the banking industry etc The more you can control a region, the better the politics treat you because I am sure some day we will be forced to sell out My opinion isle are taking many steps in the wrong direction..There are many better means of reform than what are being offered..