Dear Medicaid Task Force members:

With the unprecedented economic conditions of this state (and country), all facets of the state budget are facing cuts and we need to quickly enlist your help to hopefully soften the impact of potential cuts to the Medicaid program.

Bert Wilson has created a spreadsheet that we hope you will be willing to complete and return to Robin Cummings ( rcummings@msv.org ) no later than Wednesday, February 17, 2010 . We realize this is a very tight timeframe, but we feel it would be extremely useful to receive this information from as many of you as possible.

The data will be kept confidential by and for the use of MSV.  This information will be used in our lobbying efforts to minimize the impact of any Medicaid program cuts on our practices.  It will be important for us to be able to demonstrate the impact any Medicaid cuts would have on our practices, our employees, our communities, and our patients. 

Bert has offered to answer any questions you might have regarding the spreadsheet (Click here to view spreadsheet).  He can be reached at 804.549.4033.  He provided the following information for your consideration as you review the spreadsheet:

Specifically, the spreadsheet will allow you to calculate operating expenses per RVU and to compare operating expenses per procedure to the Medicaid allowances per procedure. This worksheet is designed to calculate only the true operating expenses (no physician salaries or benefits) for comparison to the contract allowances.  Please note that there are two sheets in play, one to calculate the raw operating expenses and one to do the conversion. I have plugged in random numbers for illustrative purposes. Another point of clarification is that the responders can fill in as many different procedure codes as they wish on Sheet 2. I have just included 5 codes to demonstrate the process.