[nikomen]

> Sorry, I meant suggest taking less patients, in addition to charging enough to match what you were making before. You forgot that doctors that accept medicare don't have any say in what they get paid for a service. The government decides. They (or the hospital/practice) also have to negotiate with insurance companies for payment amounts. Have you ever seen in the news where an insurance company stops allowing its customers to go to a certain hospital system because the hospital wanted to negotiate higher payments form the insurer?