tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 29

PHYSICIANS: What You Can Do To Urge 2007 Pay Hike

Your payments have been frozen since 2001, senators note.If Congress doesn't get its act together, you could face another 5-percent cut to your overall Medicare reimbursement next year, warns a new letter from Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Deborah Stabenow (D-MI). And payments are set to shrink by 37 percent by 2015, according to the letter to Senate leaders Bill Frist (R-TN) and Harry Reid (D-NV). "The average 2006 Medicare rates for physicians are about the same as they were in 2001," says the letter, which 80 senators signed. If the cuts go through, payments will have...

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