Congress To Resume Crafting Medicare Legislation That Would Further Delay Physician Fee Cut

Congressional aides at a forum on Wednesday said they are optimistic that Congress can pass Medicare legislation this year that likely would stop for 18 months a 10.6% cut to Medicare physician fees, CQ Today reports. The fee cut is scheduled to go into effect on July 1 (Armstrong, CQ Today, 1/16).President Bush last month signed into law a bill that delays the fee cut for six months and extends SCHIP through March 2009.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on January 29th, 2008