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County docs consider leaving

Bob Rozycki
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May-22-09, 04:06 PM
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Topics: Health Care, Hospitals, Law

More than half of the doctors in a survey by the Westchester County Medical Society are contemplating leaving the county and practicing medicine elsewhere.


In addition, 36 percent indicated they are considering retirement in the next 10 years.


Add to those statistics the number of employees in each practice and the dozens of ancillary groups used by doctors’ offices and the county could face an infrastructure in need of emergency care.


Doctors cited decreasing health care reimbursement, increasing malpractice insurance rates, higher state taxes, rising office costs and higher rents as among the major reasons they are considering for moving, according to The Westchester County Medical Futures Survey.


The survey was taken prior to the passage of the MTA bailout package, which includes a payroll tax of 34 cents per $100, an additional burden, said Amy Newburger, president of the medical society.


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  1. Anne Duffy makes this comment

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    I apprecaite your thoroughness of research in this article. This is serious issue- and I often witness this widely rampant disenchantment amongst doctors - who simpy follow their "healing" onjective but who feel they are being pinched by econimic factors. I have already lost two of my best personal doctors due to these reasons.

  2. NCIndependent makes this comment

    Tuesday, 08 September 2009

    I moved from my native Westchester to North Carolina two years ago to escape the relentless rise in the cost of living, taxes (for no improvement in services), and horrid winter weather. Many excellent doctors are here in NC along with renowned medical centers. I was pleased to find medical care even better here in the Charlotte area -- and much more efficient! So there is (a better) life outside the confines of NYS and Westchester. This story doesn't surprise me at all.

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