President Calls for Steep Medicare Provider Pay Cuts, Lab Fees Spared, But Physician Fee Fix Not Addressed February 11, 2008
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Clinical lab fees payable under Medicare Part B are not included on the hit list for provider payment cutbacks in the President’s budget request for federal fiscal year 2009, released February 4 and sent to Congress. Lab fees, frozen since 2004 at 2003 levels, are scheduled to emerge from the freeze at the end of this year and are in line for an automatic Consumer Price Index update in calendar 2009 unless Congress says otherwise.
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