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Brief Medicare pay fix may mean showdown in lame-duck Congress – American Medical News
Congressional Spat Over Doctor’s Medicare Pay Threatens Obama’s Healthcare … – Money Morning
Kaiser Health News
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Congressional Spat Over Doctor's Medicare Pay Threatens Obama's Healthcare ...
Money Morning
A Congressional stalemate over how to stave off a hefty pay cut to doctors treating Medicare patients ...
California Doctors Prepare For Medicare Cuts
Calif. ? California doctors could lose 21 cents on every dollar they currently earn from Medicare patients. The cuts will take effect Thursday unless Congress passes a new Medicare formula. The California Medical Association estimates there are about
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‘Doc fix’ stumbles in Senate – DOTmed.com (press release)
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />'Doc fix' stumbles in Senate
DOTmed.com (press release)
Democrats are expected to introduce a slimmed down version of the bill, HR 4213, delaying the Medicare pay cuts for seven months, instead of...
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Doctors Fatigued By Latest Medicare Pay Cut Threat – NPR
Kaiser Health News
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Doctors Fatigued By Latest Medicare Pay Cut Threat
NPR
Under this formula, pay cuts kick in when Medicare payments to physicians outpace certain economic targets. Congress has deferred the pay...
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Renewed Threat Of Medicare Pay Cuts Leaves Doctors With ‘Sense Of Fatigue’ – Kaiser Health News
Kaiser Health News
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Renewed Threat Of Medicare Pay Cuts Leaves Doctors With 'Sense Of Fatigue'
Kaiser Health News
Under this formula, pay cuts kick in when doctors' spending outpaces certain economic targets. Congress...
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Obama And GOP Bicker Over Doctors’ Medicare Pay
wants to avoid reducing physicians' Medicare fees, but do it without adding to the deficit -- meaning spending cuts elsewhere. The president noted that since 2003, Congresses led by Democrats and by Republicans alike have blocked similar proposed cuts in
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Doctors’ Medicare pay cut delayed – USA Today
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Doctors' Medicare pay cut delayed
USA Today
The Obama administration has delayed a deep pay cut for doctors treating Medicare patients. The 21% cut was scheduled to take effect tomorrow. ...
White House again postpones doc cuts under Medicare – The Hill (blog)
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />White House again postpones doc cuts under Medicare
The Hill (blog)
Doctors treating Medicare patients won't be hit with a steep pay cut on Tuesday, as previously scheduled, ...
Time to pay for health careRutland Herald
Medicare hits pause button on cuts in doctors’ pay
Medicare officials are hitting the pause button on a hefty cut in doctor's pay required by law unless Congress acts
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Doctors faces 21 percent cut in Medicare payments – Washington Post
Washington Post
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Doctors faces 21 percent cut in Medicare payments
Washington Post
(American Medical Association) By Ed O'Keefe Doctors with Medicare patients will start seeing a 21 percent pay cut this...
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President Obama Calls On Republicans To Stop Obstructing Medicare Fair Pay For … – Blue Wave News (blog)
The Hindu
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />President Obama Calls On Republicans To Stop Obstructing Medicare Fair Pay For ...
Blue Wave News (blog)
So I urge Republicans in the Senate to at least allow a majority of...
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Obama presses Congress to pass Medicare ?doc fix?
WASHINGTON â?? President Barack Obama called yesterday for Congress to avert a planned 21 percent pay cut for doctors who see Medicare patients, saying lawmakers must act to ensure the health of older Americans. The â??doc fix,â? which would
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Obama, GOP work on averting cut in Medicare doctors’ pay
wants to avoid reducing physicians' Medicare fees, but do it without adding to the deficit â meaning spending cuts elsewhere. The president noted that since 2003, Congresses led by Democrats and by Republicans alike have blocked similar proposed cuts in
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Obama, GOP work on averting cut in Medicare doctors’ pay
party wants to avoid reducing physicians' fees, but do it without adding to the deficit â?? meaning spending cuts elsewhere. The president noted that since 2003, Congresses led by Democrats and by Republicans alike have blocked similar proposed cuts
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Obama and GOP bicker over doctors’ Medicare pay? 3 hrs ago? -
party wants to avoid reducing physicians' fees, but do it without adding to the deficit ? meaning spending cuts elsewhere. The president noted that since 2003, Congresses led by Democrats and by Republicans alike have blocked similar proposed cuts in
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Obama calls on GOP to stop blocking Medicare bill
in the amount doctors are paid under Medicare, warning that the elderly could lose medical services if the cuts go into effect. In his weekly radio address, Obama said the looming cuts -- under a formula established more than over a decade ago -- 'would
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Obama and GOP bicker over doctors’ Medicare pay – The Associated Press
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Obama and GOP bicker over doctors' Medicare pay
The Associated Press
And that's why in the short-term, Congress must act to prevent this pay cut to doctors." In the GOP weekly radio address, House Republican leader John ...
Saturday Word: Obama and Cameron – New York Times (blog)
The Hindu
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Saturday Word: Obama and Cameron
New York Times (blog)
Weekly Address: President Obama called on Congress Saturday to avert the annual planned 21 percent pay cut for doctors who see Medicare...
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Obama blames Republicans for pay cut risk to doctors – Xinhua
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Obama blames Republicans for pay cut risk to doctors
Xinhua
WASHINGTON, June 12 (Xinhua) -- US President Barack Obama called on Senate Republicans Saturday to stop blocking a vote that would...
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Obama and GOP bicker over doctors? Medicare pay
party wants to avoid reducing physicians? fees, but do it without adding to the deficit ? meaning spending cuts elsewhere. The president noted that since 2003, Congresses led by Democrats and by Republicans alike have blocked similar proposed cuts in
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Obama To Congress: Raise Doctors’ Medicare Pay
address. He noted that since 2003, Congresses led by Democrats and by Republicans alike have blocked similar proposed cuts in doctors' reimbursement rates. But now, he said, Republicans are "willing to walk away from the needs of our doctors and our
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Obama urges Senate vote on Medicare pay
S. President Barack Obama Saturday urged Senate Republicans to drop their opposition to a vote to avert a pay cut for doctors participating in Medicare. In his weekly radio and Internet address, the president said Republicans are "willing to walk away
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Insurers Defend Medicare Advantage in Wake of HHS Warning
carrier bids this Monday provided another flash point in the ongoing clash between insurers and the government, as cuts to the MA program?as well as the possibility of higher rates for seniors?inch closer to enactment. The latest tiff comes as
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Congress keeps Medicare doctors waiting – CNNMoney
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Congress keeps Medicare doctors waiting
CNNMoney
The House of Representatives voted May 28 to delay the 21% pay cut for 19 months, but the Senate did not take action before its Memorial Day recess. ...
'Doc Fix'...
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Private health insurance policy holders would bear costs of further Medicare payment cuts
A recent article pointed out that the cuts in Medicare payments to doctors scheduled to take effect June 1 "could undermine key goals of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul" ("Uncertainty over Medicare pay sets doctors on
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AMA appeals to public to get senators to fix Medicare pay – FierceHealthcare
TopNews Singapore (press release)
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />AMA appeals to public to get senators to fix Medicare pay
FierceHealthcare
The American Medical Association, outraged about Congress' failure to address physicians' 21 percent pay cut before Memorial...
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AMA Launches Ads Pushing Senators On ‘Doc Fix’ While Warning On Cuts – Kaiser Health News
TopNews Singapore (press release)
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />AMA Launches Ads Pushing Senators On 'Doc Fix' While Warning On Cuts
Kaiser Health News
Reuters: "Before Congress left town, the House of Representative voted to postpone the pay...
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Physicians Seeing Fewer Medicare Patients Because of Low Pay and Threat of Cut – Medscape
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Physicians Seeing Fewer Medicare Patients Because of Low Pay and Threat of Cut
Medscape
As a result of Senate inaction, the draconian pay cut took effect on Tuesday, June 1, although the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is holding...
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Are Doctors ObamaCare’s “Useful Idiots”? – Forbes (blog)
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Are Doctors ObamaCare's "Useful Idiots"?
Forbes (blog)
The short answer is that doctors backed health reform thinking that it might help them avert a pay cut. But Washington proponents of the legislation ...
The Blue Dogs Roll...
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Congress Goes on Recess Without Fixing Medicare Reimbursement Rate
rate. This formula has forced Congress to step in every year since 2002 and take action to avoid cuts in the payments to Medicare doctors. But by postponing the cuts and not changing the SGR formula, the difference in the targeted and actual payments
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The Blue Dogs Roll Over – Wall Street Journal
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />The Blue Dogs Roll Over
Wall Street Journal
Everyone in Washington knows this policy will be extended in future years, or doctors would have to take a 30% pay cut when treating Medicare patients. ...
Blue Dogs...
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Petition to Stop Cancer Care Cuts Surpasses 50,000 Signatures
delivered this month,' said Ted Okon The recently passed Health Care Reform legislation did not address the ongoing cuts to Medicare reimbursement rates to physicians. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has severely cut payments for
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Medicare Cuts Payments To Doctors By 21 Percent – KPBS
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Medicare Cuts Payments To Doctors By 21 Percent
KPBS
The Medicare pay reduction is mandated by a bill passed in 1997. Congress has delayed the pay cut three times this year. The House passed a bill that would ...
Medicare Agency Will Briefly Delay Cuts in Doctor Payments
and Medicaid Services has notified physicians it will delay processing claims for two weeks. Efforts to prevent the cuts before the deadline have run out of time. The House on Friday approved a $22.9 billion provision in a package of tax and benefit
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Jobs Bill: Dems Keep ‘Doc Fix’ But Jettison COBRA Benefits, Extra State … – Kaiser Health News
Kansas City Star
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Jobs Bill: Dems Keep 'Doc Fix' But Jettison COBRA Benefits, Extra State ...
Kaiser Health News
Medscape: "Anticipating that Congress might not act in time to avert the June 1...
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Democrats eye Medicare cuts in tax, jobs bill
at the package's $134 billion cost, Democratic leaders considered scaling back a provision that would prevent drastic pay cuts for doctors who see patients in the Medicare health-insurance program, according to congressional staffers and lobbyists. The
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US Democrats eye Medicare cuts in tax, jobs bill – Reuters
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />US Democrats eye Medicare cuts in tax, jobs bill
Reuters
A flaw in Medicare's payment system pays doctors at outdated rates, which would amount to a 21 percent pay cut, unless Congress...
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Against the Medicare doctor pay cut – The Hill (blog)
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Against the Medicare doctor pay cut
The Hill (blog)
Unless Congress acts to stop the 21 percent Medicare pay cut to physicians, even more elderly and disabled Americans will find themselves holding a Medicare ...
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Proposed Medicare Pay Raises Lag Behind Inflation Rate – Medscape
BNET
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Proposed Medicare Pay Raises Lag Behind Inflation Rate
Medscape
The pay cut had been 21.2%, but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently adjusted the figure. In 2014, the cut could...
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