It appears that way. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) summoned members of the doctors lobby to Capitol Hill Wednesday evening for an update on the Democrats’ plans to prevent Medicare doctors from receiving a 21 percent pay cut at the end of this month.
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So hinted Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who told a crowd gathered this week for an annual meeting of the American Hospital Association that the House might soon introduce such a bill, CQ HealthBeat reports.
The political advantage of that move is clear: The American Medical Association has More…
With a good number of reservations, the American Medical Association, the country’s largest doctors lobby, today put its significant weight behind the health reform bills the House will take up this weekend.
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It’s not just the filing deadline for unemployment benefits that’s set to arrive at the end of this month. Doctors treating Medicare patients are also scheduled to see an average pay cut of 21 percent beginning March 1, leaving no absence of questions about how the Democrats plan to deal More…
In December, when the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest doctors lobby, endorsed the Senate’s plan for reforming health care, the backing came with a warning: The final bill must include a long-term fix to the flawed formula — dubbed the Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR — that More…
The American Medical Association, the nation’s largest doctors lobby, today put its weight behind the health reform bill likely to pass the Senate this week. But in its letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the group also warns that reform will be incomplete until Congress addresses More…
As part of a defense spending bill passed yesterday in the House, Democratic leaders included funding to prevent a 21-percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors, which was scheduled to hit Jan. 1. But the relief doesn’t last long. Instead, Democrats delayed the cuts just two months, meaning More…
The House is expected tomorrow to take up a $210 billion proposal to scrap the flawed formula that dictates Medicare doctor payments, thereby averting a 21-percent pay cut slated for next year.
If the proposal sounds familiar, it’s because the Senate considered a nearly identical bill More…
In a letter today to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest doctors lobby, announced its support for House Democrats’ proposed health reforms. But there’s a catch. Namely, AMA isn’t offering its outright support for the $894 billion proposal — the one that’s getting all the More…
Just announced from the office of Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the upper chamber will vote this afternoon to bring to the floor a $245 billion proposal scrapping the formula by which doctors are paid to treat Medicare patients.
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