Medicaid Pay Increase For Hospitalists Confirmed For 2013-2014.

Are hospitalists going to get a Medicaid pay raise for 2013 and 2014?  The answer is yes, hospitalists qualify for Medicaid parity (with Medicare) as required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  For many states, Medicaid pays physicians and other providers a fraction of Medicare rates.  Legislation signed as part of the ACA mandates Medicaid rates to equal 100% of Part B Medicare rates in calendar year (CY) 2013 and 2014.  That means  if you haven't already seen increased rates, and you are a qualified physician providing qualfied primary care services, you will get increased Medicaid payments retroactively applied to January 1st, 2013. When folks think of primary care, most likely think of the outpatient clinics for pediatrics, family medicine and internal medicine physicians.  But that's not how ObamaCare defines a primary care specialty.  That's right people, hospitalists, pediatric cardiologists and a whole lot of other practicing physicians now qualify as providers of primary care under ACA rules. I was first alerted to this stunning CY 2013 and 2014 increase in Medicaid payments for hospitalists after reading an article from The Hospitalist titled Afordable Care Act (ACA) Provision Carries Pay Raise For Some Hospitalists.  Joshua Bowell, the Society of Hospital Medicine's senior manager of government relations, discusses the rules and how they apply to hospitalists.  It's a great article and I encourage all hospitalists ...
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