tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 36

Legislation: Keep Calling Your Representatives To Push For Relief From Cuts

You may still receive a respite from the 4.3 percent cut that's slated to devastate your practice in January, if one influential member of Congress has her way.Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT), chair of the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, signaled her determination to push ahead with her bill--H.R. 3617--to save physicians from pay cuts. H.R. 3617 would guarantee your practice a 1.5 percent pay increase in 2006 and 2007, and then pay increases based on an index of health care costs.Drawback: Your physician would only receive the full increases in 2007 and...

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