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Robert Calandra, For The Inquirer
Posted: Sunday, October 20, 2013, 8:51 AM
Tom Shaffrey is an old-fashioned family doctor, the kind who calls his patients by their first name and can tell the severity of their problem just by listening to them.
But he's worried that he and other small New Jersey primary-care physicians won't be able to keep practicing their brand of personal medicine because insurers are elbowing them out of business through narrow provider networks in the new plans under the Affordable Care Act.
"We have no way to know exactly how this is going to play out, but the indication is that our members will be dropped, will be excluded from seeing patients that they may have known for a majority of their lives," said Shaffrey, president of the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians. "I think it is going to have a tremendous impact."
In the last several years, solo and small family medical practices have been under considerable economic pressure across the country. Narrow provider networks have contributed to squeezing New Jersey family practitioners out of business, Shaffrey said. And the family practices that do get contracts with insurers are seeing payment for services sharply reduced. Add to that the growing popularity of stand-alone clinics that are drawing away patients.
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SNIP:
Robert Calandra, For The Inquirer
Posted: Sunday, October 20, 2013, 8:51 AM
Tom Shaffrey is an old-fashioned family doctor, the kind who calls his patients by their first name and can tell the severity of their problem just by listening to them.
But he's worried that he and other small New Jersey primary-care physicians won't be able to keep practicing their brand of personal medicine because insurers are elbowing them out of business through narrow provider networks in the new plans under the Affordable Care Act.
"We have no way to know exactly how this is going to play out, but the indication is that our members will be dropped, will be excluded from seeing patients that they may have known for a majority of their lives," said Shaffrey, president of the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians. "I think it is going to have a tremendous impact."
In the last several years, solo and small family medical practices have been under considerable economic pressure across the country. Narrow provider networks have contributed to squeezing New Jersey family practitioners out of business, Shaffrey said. And the family practices that do get contracts with insurers are seeing payment for services sharply reduced. Add to that the growing popularity of stand-alone clinics that are drawing away patients.
all of it here
Read more at Obamacare worries small family practices
