tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 5

Medicare: No Joke: Deal With April 1 Pay Cut

Hope for Senate action after recess. The Senate wasn’t fooling when it went on break without overriding the 21 percent pay cut scheduled for April 1. Although the House passed the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), the Senate failed to vote on the bill before departing for a two week recess on March 27. “Their failure to act leaves physicians facing a devastating 21 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements when the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) payment patch expires on March 31,” said Robert M. Wah, MD, president of the AMA, in a March 27...

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