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Fiscal cliff law shifts Medicare cuts to hospitals
The president today signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 into law to stave off the fiscal cliff, the Associated Press reported, but the last-minute deal between Congress has left hospitals dismayed.
Obama signs Medicare doc fix
Providers can breathe a sigh of relief (at least temporarily), as President Obama on Wednesday signed legislation ( H.R. 3630 ) that includes a 10-month doc fix, averting a 27.4 percent reduction in
Physicians unsettled by temporary doc fix
In case you missed it, Congress approved a doc-fix measure last Friday that will avert the scheduled 27.4 percent Medicare cut to physicians, but only until the end of the year. With the relief once
Congress reaches doc fix deal; hospitals jeer cuts
Congress approved a deal this morning, averting the proposed 27.4 percent Medicare cut to physicians for 10 months, but hospitals are booing the funding cuts to hospital services that are intended to
Sustainable growth rate at a stalemate
Just weeks before the 27 percent cut to Medicare physician payments is scheduled to take effect, House and Senate negotiators remain deadlocked over how to resolve the sustainable growth rate (SGR)
Doc groups push SGR repeal to be funded by war savings
Congress should use money allocated for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), a budget line no longer needed for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, to help fund a permanent fix to the sustainable growth
Providers blast Congress for leaving SGR fix in limbo
The House yesterday voted 229 to 193 against Senate-approved legislation that would delay Medicare's scheduled 27 percent physician pay cut for two months as part of a payroll-tax extension. With a
Waiting for 'doc fix' becoming an unpleasant holiday tradition
Last year around the holidays, doctors were looking at a Medicare pay cut of about 20 percent, The Washington Post reminisces in an article, calling the "doc fix" a recurring symbol of the
MedPAC votes for SGR repeal, specialists dissaprove
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has approved a replacement to the 15-year-old sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment formula for physicians, although pushback is already occurring
MedPAC doc fix draft falls short, physician groups say
With a deep 29.5 percent cut to Medicare reimbursement still scheduled to hit physicians on Jan. 1, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has proposed a plan that would kill the
