tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 24

PHYSICIANS: Bills Would Replace Cut With 2.7-Percent Boost

... but a permanent solution to physician payment woes may have to wait.Physicians could avert a planned pay cut of around 4.3 percent if one of two new bills makes it into law. Both bills are called the Preserving Patient Access To Physicians Act of 2005, and both would replace the scheduled cut with a 2.7 percent increase in 2006 and another in 2007. The two bills have one significant difference, however. The Senate bill (S 1081), introduced by Sens. John Kyl (R-AZ) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) would simply mandate pay increases for 2006 and 2007...

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