Michelle Zeanah is getting a big pay cut this month. It’s not that the Statesboro pediatrician is seeing fewer patients. Just the opposite. The 12 rural counties surrounding Bulloch County, where Statesboro is located, have no pediatrician. So Zeanah is very much in demand.
Forty percent of her patients have driving distances of 45 minutes or more. A few come from more than 50 miles away.Her pay cut involves the Medicaid program. Reimbursements to primary care doctors under Medicaid just went down in Georgia and many other states.
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January 18, 2015
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