Crappy Compensation Just One (Big) Reason Doctors May Spurn Your Obamacare Coverage
...A poll conducted by the New York State Medical Society finds that 44 percent of MDs said they are not participating in the nation’s new health-care plan.

Another 33 percent say they’re still not sure whether to become ObamaCare providers.

Only 23 percent of the 409 physicians queried said they’re taking patients who signed up through health exchanges....

...A representative of one primary care provider organization, speaking to MedPage Today on background, said some rates were 70% lower than traditional preferred provider network plans, adding that plans were trying to make provider rates as low as possible to keep premiums equally low.

"Initial hearsay information is that payment rates being offered by [marketplace] plans are quite low in at least some of the states," a federal affairs representative for a second primary care provider group said. "What that means is that fewer providers will sign up."...