tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 41

Medicare Reform: LEGISLATORS STILL DISAGREE ON ROLE OF PRIVATE PLANS

Past the initial deadline for a final bill, experts say process could go until December.  As MLR goes to press, Medicare negotiators are still meeting, trying to hammer out the conceptual deal that Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and others had suggested would have been at hand by late October. Indications are that conferees are still facing serious divides on several issues. That's not to say that the negotiators have not been making notable progress in some key areas. For instance, according to reports based on documents prepared by the offices of Sens. Max Baucus (D-MT) and John Breaux...

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