Senate Republicans Block Debate On Bill That Would Delay Medicare Physician Payment Cut

Senate Democrats on Thursday failed to obtain the 60 votes required to invoke cloture and begin debate on a bill (S 3101) that would delay for 18 months a 10.6% reduction in Medicare physician fees scheduled to take effect on July 1 and increase payments by 1.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on June 19th, 2008