Posts Tagged ‘payment’
Pediatricians Warn Payment System May Force Them To Stop Accepting Medicaid Patients
CNN Money: Doctors are increasingly turning away from accepting Medicaid patients as the payment system – and an increasing number of Medicaid patients – means they’re losing money treating patients. In the Atlanta area, this is evidenced by the closing of two pediatric clinics…
Statement By Medicare Rights Center President Joe Baker On Release Of Preliminary 2011 Payment Rates For Private Medicare Health And Drug Plans
The good news in today’s announcement is that, unlike in past years, the coverage gap in the Medicare drug benefit-the so-called doughnut hole when consumers must pay full price for their medicine-is not expected to grow in 2011. For technical reasons related to how the drug benefit parameters are calculated, the coverage gap will actually shrink by $10…
Congress Faces One-Month Deadline On Doctor Payment Fix
The doctor payment fix and several marketplace issues, such as insurance red tape and malpractice cases, continue to loom while health care reform efforts stall. The Hill: “At the end of February, a short-term measure enacted late last year will expire, exposing doctors who treat Medicare patients to a 21 percent reduction in their fees…
Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act Of 2009
Statement by APTA President R. Scott Ward, PT, PhD The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) applauds the US House of Representatives for taking recent action to ensure that America’s seniors and people with disabilities have access to high quality care rehabilitative services. The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 (HR 3961), which passed by a vote of 243 to 183, would stop a 21.
Pelosi Statement On House Passage Of Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on legislation that would permanently reform the broken Medicare physician payment system. The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act, which passed by a vote of 243 to 183, repeals a 21 percent fee reduction scheduled for January 2010, and replaces the physician payment formula with a more stable system.
Medicare Doctor Payment “Fix” Could Slip, Jeopardizing AMA Support For Health Reform
The American Medical Association backed the House Democrats’ reform bill earlier this month, at a time when it appeared likely lawmakers would move to permanently end looming cuts to doctors’ Medicare payments that Congress defers from year to year, Politico reports. While the so-called “doc fix” was not in the final health bill, “[t]he House is expected to pass a bill later this week to permanently plug [the] shortfall ….
Advocates Urge Action Now On Medicare Doctor Payment Bill
Kaiser Health News staff writer Chris Weaver reports on developments surrounding efforts in the Senate regarding legislation on Medicare payments to physicians. “Legislation to ‘fix’ Medicare’s physician payment formula has stalled in the Senate, just days after Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced his intent to fast-track the measure. …
Some Senate Democrats Help Republicans Defeat $247 Billion Medicare Payment ‘Doctor Fix’
“Democrats lost a big test vote on health care legislation on Wednesday as the Senate blocked action on a bill to increase Medicare payments to doctors at a cost of $247 billion over 10 years,” the The New York Times reports. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, “needed 60 votes to proceed. He won only 47. And he could not blame Republicans.
Health Reform Unlikely To Fix Medicare Doctor Payment System
Health care reform in Congress is unlikely to reform the Medicare physician payment system, and lawmakers are likely to settle for another one-year fix to block a reduction in payments to doctors, CQ Politics reports. The scheduled reduction in Medicare payment rates would be 22 percent without reform.
AAMC Thanks Obama Administration For Preventing Payment Cut To Teaching Hospitals
AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement on the Obama administration’s reversal of a policy that would have eliminated Medicare’s capital indirect medical education (IME) adjustment paid to U.S. teaching hospitals: “We wholeheartedly commend the Obama administration for restoring Medicare’s capital IME adjustment.
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