Final Medicare Rule Cuts Physician Fees, Punts on Pod Labs November 6, 2006
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Unless Congress intervenes, Medicare payments for physician services will be cut 5%, starting January 1, under the final 2007 physician fee schedule rule released November 1. The cut, lower than the 5.1% cut projected earlier this year, is being made in accord with the statutory fee update formula, said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.