Pulling the Medicare provision out of the stalled jobs bill and voting on it separately, the Senate unanimously agreed this afternoon to delay a 21 percent cut to doctors’ Medicare reimbursement rates until December.
Due to the weeks it has taken the Senate to get to voting on the More…
Yesterday evening, Senate Republicans, joined by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Ct.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), voted against ending debate on the jobs bill, also known as the extenders’ bill or H.R. 4213. The Republicans considered most likely to cross the fence for the bill — Sens. Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins More…
Democrats have been trimming and cutting and adding measures to the jobs bill — also known as the extenders’ bill or H.R. 4213 — that stalled out in the Senate. Yesterday, to appease deficit hawks and the 12 Democrats who voted against authorizing emergency deficit spending on the More…
Yesterday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) withdrew his request for a cloture vote to end debate on the pending jobs bill, which continues the emergency extension of unemployment insurance, Medicaid funding for states and Medicare payments for doctors.
The Senate has planned further consideration of amendments and More…
It’s not the permanent fix they were looking for, but the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest lobby of doctors, said yesterday that it supports the Democrats’ proposal to postpone a pay cut for Medicare doctors until 2014 — a temporary solution that kicks the problem down the More…
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…
Behind Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the Republicans this morning have continued to block a $9.2 billion proposal to extend COBRA health benefits, delay a 21 percent cut in Medicare doctor payments, and extend the filing deadline for unemployment benefits (not to be confused with the creation of additional More…
A 21-percent cut in Medicare payments for doctors is scheduled to take effect April 1 and congressional leaders have plenty of reasons to step in and prevent it: Policy-wise, the cut could cause serious access-to-care problems if doctors stopped seeing Medicare patients, as many have threatened to do. Politically, no More…
With President Obama having signed an enormous, $938 billion health reform proposal into law Tuesday, it’s tempting to imagine that the long-drawn and ubiquitous debate over health care legislation is over for a while.
If only it were so.
[Congress1] Neither the bill that was signed yesterday nor the More…
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