DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 12 (December)

Expect 2-year SGR patch with flat fees, then more cuts in 2013 thanks to deficit law

Expect Congress to stop the 27.4% cut to your Medicare physician payments before 2012, and replace it with two years of 0% updates. You face even more uncertainty for 2013, thanks to a new wrinkle introduced in the law passed to raise the U.S. debt ceiling in August. That law resulted in Congress creating a Super Committee that was supposed to deliver a plan for $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years.

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