The hospital has suffered from poor reimbursement; mammography barely breaks even, he said.
Programs for new mothers lack enough providers because of poor reimbursement rates, and the biggest impact falls on poor women who are uninsured.
Qsymia has not sold well for a variety of reasons, including poor reimbursement and distribution restrictions imposed because of concerns that the drug can cause birth defects.
Ingenix also has drawn the ire of the New York attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, who said last month that poor reimbursement by insurers resulting from Ingenix data, has led to higher medical bills for consumers.
Women on Medicaid often have trouble finding a doctor who accepts it because of poor reimbursement rates, thus limiting their choice of a hospital, said Cathy Gallagher, a certified nurse midwife at the Peekskill Area Health Center.
What is more, few of the candidates have been willing to take on the city's frayed primary health care system, which has been battered down by poor reimbursement rates from both public and commercial insurance and often does not exist in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
Dr. Charles M. Cutler, the chief medical officer for the American Association of Health Plans, a trade group representing managed care companies, said that claims of poor reimbursement were overstated and doctors were paid for the services they provided, not at a flat per-patient fee.
Dennis Rosen, in his excellent Op-Ed article, "Raising Doctors to Treat Children" (July 23), could have easily added another challenge that must be addressed in order to increase the number of pediatric pulmonologists in the United States: the poor reimbursement for pediatric subspecialty care.
Diabetes self-management education (DSME) and medical nutrition therapy (MNT) improve patient outcomes; poor reimbursement limits access to care.
Problems with systems were common occurrences, including lead migration/loss of capture, lead breakage or disconnections, lack of technology availability/compatibility, and poor reimbursement.
