Medicare Reform: MEDICARE REFORM CONFEREES BICKER AS NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE
House and Senate Medicare negotiators are meeting this week to vote on tentative agreements reached by staff members during the August recess, conference committee and House Ways and Means chair Bill Thomas (R-CA) told reporters after Republican conferees met Sept. 4.
A spokesperson for conference vice chair Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) told CQ Today that Grassley had received a commitment that the conference committee would be discussing rural payment issues "right away." The Senate Finance Committee chair pulled his staff out of negotiations last month, in large part because he believed the committee was not promptly and adequately...
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