Welcome to Obama care and the sequester.
Cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients, blaming the sequester budget cuts.
Oncologists say the reduced funding, which took effect for Medicare
on April 1, makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy
drugs while staying afloat financially.
Patients at these clinics would need to seek treatment elsewhere,
such as at hospitals that might not have the capacity to accommodate
them.
“If we treated the patients receiving the most expensive drugs, we’d
be out of business in six months to a year,” said Jeff Vacirca, chief
executive of North Shore Hematology Oncology Associates in New York.
“The drugs we’re going to lose money on we’re not going to administer
right now.”
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