HealthCare Notes

5/20/13

The Government Bans Doctors Who Can’t Repay Their Student Loans From Treating Medicare Patients

The Government Bans Doctors Who Can’t Repay Their Student Loans From Treating Medicare Patients: Over ten percent of all doctors and nurses on the government’s Medicare and Medicaid blacklist end up on it because they defaulted on government-backed student loans. Medical workers on the blacklist are barred from treating Medicare and Medicaid patients or receiving federal reimbursements for a predesignated time period. According to a Modern Healthcare analysis of [...]/p