Santa Cruz Doctors Get Lower Medicare Reimbursements
Santa Cruz County's designation as a rural county has led to a low Medicare reimbursement rate and forced many primary care doctors in the county to stop seeing new Medicare patients. In addition, private health plans' reimbursement rates also are low in Santa Cruz County because they often base their rates on Medicare's.
- "Lower Medicare Reimbursements Plague County Doctors" (Wiener, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2/20).