tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 21

Legislation: Congress Agrees On 2009 Budget Without Medicare Cuts

Plan would create budget surplus by 2012 -- but June '08 Medicare cuts are left hanging Lawmakers on Capitol Hill seem to have had Medicare budget concerns on their minds last week, with a surprising budget plan that reveals no cuts to the Medicare program. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate agreed to a $3.07 trillion budget conference agreement for 2009. Notably absent from the budget agreement were several steep Medicare cuts that President Bush had requested earlier this year when he proposed his $3.1 trillion budget. Instead, the agreement doesn't put into place the...

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