A partisan battle over changes to Medicare stalled a bill that would prevent a 10.6% doctor pay cut and trim Medicare Advantage, private insurer’s version of Medicare, reports The Wall Street Journal’s blog on health.
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No one has to remind you that Medicare fees are set to automatically decline by 10.6 percent on July 1. In a move to stave off the big cut, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) introduced legislation late Friday afternoon, legislation that could set the stage for a clash with the White House and Senate Republicans.
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Physicians deserve higher Medicare fees, but they may have to keep enduring annual statutory pay cuts restored at the last second by congressional action, says Neera Tanden, the chief policy director for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. That pattern won’t end, Tanden adds, until universal coverage is achieved. “Hillary has supported the annual increases in pay when they come before Congress and is a strong advocate of better reimbursement for providers. She hasn’t proposed any specific steps to deal with the sustainable growth rate, but believes that universal health coverage will relieve some of the pressure on Medicare and physicians.”
Clinton’s health plan, which she estimates would cost $110 billion a year, would require all Americans to have health insurance. She would pay for the plan by eliminating waste and inefficiencies and rolling back the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy.
Clinton Believes Physicians Deserve Higher Medicare Fees [Via MedPage Today]
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The push to prevent impending Medicare physician pay cuts is being advanced by a new bill that would block such reductions for 18 months.
The legislation, called the Save Medicare Act of 2008, would continue a 0.5% physician pay update for the last six months of 2008 and would institute a 1.8% update for 2009. Physicians are slated to receive a 10.6% cut starting July 1 and an additional cut of about 5% in 2009.
Medicare pay bill: Raises to replace cuts through 2009 [Via American Medical News]
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Doctors in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia who treat Medicaid patients are paid far less than doctors in many other states who provide identical services to the same patient group, according to a new Public Citizen report.
Compared with their colleagues in other states, doctors in those five jurisdictions also earn much less under Medicaid than under Medicare. continues…
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of the nonprofit consumer group Consumers’ Checkbook that sued the Health and Human Services Department to allow disclosure of specific data about doctors from the Medicare claims database. continues…
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Physician blogger Kevin Pho, a.k.a. Kevin, M.D., has authored an op-ed piece for the Manchester Union Leader in which he warns that cuts in physician Medicare payments affect everyone because they will result in fewer primary care physicians. continues…
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