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House Passes 2-Month Delay in Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Cut
10 hours ago ago from Health Industry Washington Watch
On December 16, 2009, the House of Representatives approved a short-term delay in looming - and very large - Medicare physician fee schedule payment reductions caused by the application of the controversial sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula to the annual fee update. Specifically, the House version of H.R. 3326, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for 2010, includes a provision that freezes Medicare rates at currents levels for ...
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10 hours ago ago from Doctor to Doctor
On Wednesday the US House voted to pass a defense spending bill that contains a provision to postpone the planned 21.2% physician rate cut for Medicare until March 2010. The provision is aimed at ensuring the rate issue is addressed even if the health care debate extends past January 1, 2010, the date the cut is scheduled to take effect. The perennial cuts generated by the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula since 2003 have fueled a major ...
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3 hours ago ago from Health Blog - WSJ
By Jacob Goldstein All year, Congress has been trying to figure out what to do about the 21% cut in Medicare payments to doctors that's set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2010. The latest legislative maneuver would block the cut but only for two months. That short-term patch is tucked inside a big defense spending bill the House passed today. Astute readers of the Health Blog will recall that the House already passed a bill that would ...
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7 hours ago ago from Ilovebenefits's Blog
The House voted 395-34 to approve a fiscal 2010 defense appropriations bill that includes a measure to stave off Medicare physician payment cuts until March 2010, staving off a 21.2% cut that would have gone into effect January 1 2010. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20091216/FREE/312169959
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4 hours ago ago from The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
Ed. More on the SGR From the Wall Street Journal Health Blog : All year, Congress has been trying to figure out what to do about the 21% cut in Medicare payments to doctors that’s set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2010. The latest legislative maneuver would block the cut — but only for two months. That short-term patch is tucked inside a big defense spending bill the House passed today.
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