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Supplementary Table 3
Physicians' Willingness to Accept New Medicare Patients by Medicare Revenue as a Percent of Practice Revenue


Note: This table shows that physicians' willingness to accept no new Medicare patients grew more for physicians whose Medicare revenue is less than 10 percent of their total practice revenue. There was no change in acceptance of no new Medicare patients for physicians where Medicare revenue is 50 percent or more of practice revenue.

  1997 1999 2001
Physicians Accepting All New Medicare Patients
Medicare Revenue Under 10%
59.2%
57.0%
54.6%*
11-29%
73.9
72.0
68.3*
30-49%
79.2
77.1
77.0
50% or more
79.8
77.6
75.9*
Physicians Accepting No New Medicare Patients
Medicare Revenue Under 10%
11.1
14.2
16.3*
11-29%
2.2
1.7
2.5
30-49%
1.3
1.3
0.8*
50% or more
0.8
0.6
0.9

* Change from previous round is statistically significant at p<.05.
DATA SOURCE: HSC Community Tracking Study Household Survey.
 

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