tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 36

Legislative Update: What To Expect From Congress In 2005

There should be little legislation before New Year's '05, but then everything changes.Congress will be unable to pass all its fiscal year 2005 appropriations legislation before the November elections and will finish the job in an end-of-year lame-duck session, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) said in a September 8 address to the Academy of Molecular Imaging's Washington Symposium.On the prospects for congressional health-care action in 2005, Smith echoed remarks made earlier that morning by Liz Fowler, Democratic staff director for the Senate Finance Committee: Health-care issues including Medicare and help for the uninsured might make it onto the...

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