Do Doctors Lose Money On Medicaid Patients. The media often reports that doctors are dropping medicare patients because they are losing money on medicare. Doctors will get less money for treating medicaid patients starting in january congress is letting higher medicaid payments under obamacare expire photographer:
Most doctors in private practice lose money on medicaid patients, because the program pays less than commercial health plans or medicare, the federal insurance program for americans over 65. Doctors use these assertions to portray themselves as yearning to offer treatment. For medicare and for the private insurers, that share is much lower: