tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 45

PHYSICIANS: You've Escaped Medicare Payment Cuts--For The Moment

Senate version of bill looks better than House version.Congress moved at the very last minute to avert a 5.1-percent cut to physician reimbursement under Medicare that was supposed to take effect in January. At press time, House and Senate negotiators had agreed to a deal to cancel the Medicare physician cuts as part of a package of popular tax breaks that Congress needed to extend by year's end. Legislators were still hammering out the details of the agreement. It remained possible that some Senators might try to block the bill because of some other controversial provisions, such...

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