Doctors, Physician Groups, Hospitals Increasingly Push For Medicare Reimbursement Cuts To Be Blocked
With a Medicare reimbursement cut of 10% scheduled for physicians in January 2008, health care providers and their “well-armed lobbyists are pressing Democratic leaders to make the first changes to Medicare policy since they took control of Congress,” CQ Weekly reports. The cut could have a wide impact because it is likely to affect reimbursement rates from insurers, who typically use government programs’ payment levels as guidelines. The
