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Peer Perspective

• Medicare Reimbursement"The baby boomers begin entering Medicare in six months, and if the physician payment problem isn’t fixed, these new Medicare patients won’t be able to find a doctor to treat them." Cecil B. Wilson, M.D., President, American Medical Association
  Source: AMA-assn.org

• Medicare Reimbursement“The biggest challenge from the SGR from the physician perspective is that if individual physicians or practices meet spending targets for that given year but our colleagues don’t, the SGR gets applied across the board. It was a flawed formula from the beginning.” Valerie Arkoosh, National Physician’s Alliance President
  Source: HealthBeatBlog.org

• Sports-Related Concussions“There is a concern that I have that the possibility of serious, long-term consequences [due to repetitive concussions experienced by some football players] are being overemphasized without clear evidence. It could turn out correct. It could turn out incorrect. We don’t know.”Constantine G. Lyketsos, M.D., M.H.S., Vice Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  Source: The New York Times

• Medicare Reimbursement"There are two issues — one is fix the SGR; the other is cut wasteful programs within the federal government to pay for it. Rather than take a half trillion dollars out of Medicare and create another entitlement program, if we've got to take money out of Medicare, let's take to take care of the doctors that are caring for the Medicare patients now."Tom Coburn, M.D., U.S. Senator (R-Oklahoma)
  Source: YouTube.com

• Sports-Related Concussions"We need to do a better job of teaching parents, coaches, athletes and some physicians that concussion is much more than just a loss of consciousness and vomiting." Jeffery S. Kutcher, M.D., Michigan NeuroSport Program Director, University of Michigan Neurology Department Associate Professor
  Source: The Detroit News

• Most Pressing Practice Issue"The ability to care for and see patients and still allow my primary focus to be caring for the patients rather than having to deal with the layers and layers of bureaucracy surrounding billing and reimbursement."Berry Campbell, M.D., Maternal/Fetal Medicine Department Chair at The Women's Hospital at Saint Joseph East