Medicare pay bill: Raises to replace cuts through 2009

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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