BC Advantage - 2012 Issue 2

Winter of our Unrest

With apologies to William Shakespeare, the winter of our unrest grows increasingly frigid as Congress (at the time of this writing) is preparing for its holiday recess while apparently choosing to defer a potential avalanche of issues including the perilous government funding, an extension of unemployment benefits for millions of Americans, and most notably in healthcare, the looming 24.7 percent cut in Medicare physician reimbursement scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2012.And while the clock ticks down to the mandated October 2013 implementation of ICD-10, it is not impossible to see how it could be derailed in...

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