Retiring boomers struggle to find doctors

As baby boomers enter retirement and move to rural areas, they are having trouble finding doctors that take Medicare.

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As baby boomers enter retirement and move to rural areas, they are having trouble finding doctors that take Medicare.

There are several reasons boomers, the 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964, could face difficulties finding a doctor if they retire to small towns over the next 20 years.

First, many primary care doctors prefer to live and work in urban areas because of greater cultural opportunities, better schools and job opportunities for spouses.

Also, Medicare pays rural doctors less per procedure than urban physicians because their operating costs are supposedly less. That makes rural doctors less likely to accept Medicare patients.

Read more at ModernHealthcare.com.

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