What have you done for me lately? Office-based doctors contributed $14.7 billion to Indiana’s economy and supported 66,409 employees in 2009.

The American Medical Association and independent researchers The Lewin Group reported these statistics from a new study.

Office-based physicians in Indiana paid $9.6 billion in wages and benefits, and $581.4 million in taxes.

“Most people don’t think of physician practices as small businesses. As such, they contribute greatly to the economic vitality of our local communities and state,” Brent Mohr, M.D., Indiana State Medical Association president, says.

Office-based physicians almost always generate more for state economies than hospitals, law firms, nursing homes and home health organizations.

To read more about the report, visit the American Medical Association.

Your office-based doctors face a 22-25 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement unless Congress acts to permanently correct a flawed formula that determines these rates.

To keep your office-based physicians, please make your voice heard.

Sign the Medicare petition.

Let your representative know how you feel.

Performance Voice Solutions is a division of Northside ENT.

The New York Post wrote an interesting article about how ObamaCare stifles private practices, entitled Killing Marcus Welby. (By SCOTT GOTTLIEB)

Read the entire article here

Ask Congress to keep doctors for Medicare patients.

For a Medicare patient, a doctor can mean everything: independence, hope and security. Medicare makes it possible.

For a doctor, treating patients is everything. Our doctors have cared for many of your children and grandchildren. Our patients are family.

The last thing we want to do is tell our patients we can no longer care for them. We want to continue taking care of our Medicare patients.

Please understand that Medicare is already one of the lowest paying insurance plans in which most physicians participate.  However, your doctors stand to face a 22-25% immediate reduction in payments from Medicare unless Congress acts to permanently correct a flawed formula that determines Medicare reimbursement rates.

Even though the new healthcare bill promises to cover more patients, big problems still exist. This bill didn’t fix Medicare, our government’s largest healthcare program.

Congress must fix Medicare now, so Medicare patients can have the doctors they need when they’re sick. Medicare patients deserve to receive the care they’ve been promised.

Congress must focus on this problem it’s been putting off for more than 10 years.

A statewide effort is now underway to collect a million signatures. Indiana’s petition drive asks Congress to stop the Medicare meltdown so patients can choose their doctors and their doctors can stay in the program.

We can’t collect your signature on a petition because of government regulations. So instead, we’re sharing this information with you.

Please make your voice heard.

Sign the petition, asking Congress to continue its work and fix the crumbling foundation of our healthcare system.

Let your representative know how you feel. Members of Congress listen to their constituents.

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To make an appointment with a voice specialist at Performance Voice Solutions, call (317) 705-2732. We are a division of Northside ENT.