Congress may not find fix for impending Medicare physician rate cut

March 13, 2008 Congress may not find fix for impending Medicare physician rate cut James Brice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pro-physician forces are marching down a politically rocky road to avoid an impending 10.6% midyear cut in professional fees covered by the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Feb. 1 that federal legislation passed late last year to increase Medicare Part B physician fees by 0.5% and to delay a CMS plan for an across-the-board 10.1% rate cut will expire June 30. As a matter of simple arithmetic, MPFS rates will automatically fall 10.6% without Congressional intervention.

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