Senate to Soon Take Up Medicare Physician Fee Fix June 9, 2008
Scheduled cuts in Medicare payments to physicians would be blocked for 18 months, and physicians would get a 0.5 percent increase in 2009, under provisions likely to be part of Medicare legislation being developed by Senate Finance Committee Democrats, according to a June 2 outline of the bill. Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said he aims to bring the measure to the Senate floor in a week or so. Unless Congress acts, Medicare physician fees are slated to be cut by 10.6 percent under the program’s Sustainable Growth Rate formula, starting July 1.
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