tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 10

POLITICS & POLICY: Senate Rural Health Plan Goes Back To The Barn

A U.S. Senate amendment to the Republican tax bill that would have boosted payments to rural providers, including physicians, died in a conference committee with the House of Representatives. Sponsored by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the package would have brought rural physicians up to the level of their urban counterparts. But the Iowan ran into House opposition, notably from Ways and Means chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) and Energy and Commerce chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La). The Grassley plan would have modified the Medicare incentive payment program and set a floor for the geographic adjustments that Medicare makes on...

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