october, we started to become penalized if we were not on electronic medical records. it turns out i am spending 25 or 30 percent of my time complying with government regulations and i am trying to play by the rules and keep all of my patients. 25 or 30 percent of my time is spent filling out paper work. nmaybe less because we don t take medicare. we are lucky we haven t had to take but the new regulation will add and they change. we have a new coding system that is coming up and we have to learn a new system and pay a lot of employees to learn that system. a lot of time and period is going to be keeping up with the regulations that are currently there. i can t imagine another layer on top of. it dr. hall, what kind of percentages when you dealt with medicine?
from medicare and medicaid. we are fakes decreasing reimbursement and increasing cost of doing business. doctor, the patient who has medicare and medicaid. it is not like it cost you 100 to go through the procedure. they are fixed costs that the government decides no matter how long it takes and do. is that why you quit taking medicare and medicaid. that is part of it. the biggest problem with medicare was the regowls and coding. where as every other insurance company has one code for an annual check up. medicare has a different code and other codes you have to add to it to get to the same level as everybody else. we would have to employ separate people who are experts to handle just medicare when everybody else can do everything else. it was regulations really and
october, we started to become penalized if we were not on electronic medical records. it turns out i am spending 25 or 30 percent of my time complying with government regulations and i am trying to play by the rules and keep all of my patients. 25 or 30 percent of my time is spent filling out paper work. nmaybe less because we don t take medicare. we are lucky we haven t had to take medicare. but the new regulation will add and they change. we have a new coding system that is coming up and we have to learn a new system and pay a lot of employees to learn that system. a lot of time and period is going to be keeping up with the regulations that are currently there. i can t imagine another layer on top of. it dr. hall, what kind of percentages when you dealt with
the obama care. you cannot help the public with obama care? no. i am here in brooklyn waiting to speak to my health care professional in sam brand auto. we unfortunately can t help you with your health and after all of the problem. they listed the wrong phone number. you have angry new yorkers assuming you are not helping them. nright, that is not good. if you know brock lincupcakes we do a lot for the community and that is not our style. can you rent me a car insurance. can that hit a car with car insurance so i could so a doctor. can you help me get medicare. no. can you help me get medical marijuana? no. if you are calling here looking for health insurance you will not get it? but you will get delicious diabetes. you have an acent where are you
making it difficult for doctors to pay overhead. some are not accepting medicare or medicaid patients and some are giving up altogether before obama care. will the president s health care law make it. we have doctors who stopped accepting medicare and medicaid. and dr. hall who left her practice because it was too hard to make end s meet. first of all welcome back. what is the toughest problem that you are having right now. we are concerned about keeping the doors open. two days ago, a 38-year-old woman came to me who lost her gynecologist. they had gone out of business because of low reimbursement