Date:3/1/2010

icare."

Messages to AMA from practicing physicians about today's 21 percent cut include the following letters in their own words.

Psychiatrist, Washington, D.C.

"As a practicing psychiatrist in D.C. for over 35 years I have always treated Medicare patients for the Medicare fee, which is already way below the standard fee for my services. I felt this was an obligation to take care of senior citizens. At this point unless this 21 percent reduction in fee is repealed I will have to abandon seeing Medicare patients. I will have to do this with a heavy heart as I will not be able to maintain my practice at these rates. Given the expenses of maintaining a practice where all costs escalate every year -- malpractice, licensure, CME credits, rents, administrative fees, etc -- it no longer becomes feasible to sustain the practice."

Primary Care, Duluth, MN

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