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WANT TO STOP WHINING ONLY ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF MEDICINE? WHY DON'T YOU ACT NOW TO STOP THE 21.2% MEDICARE CUT - CALL YOUR CONGRESSPEOPLE NOW!
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Congress Adjourns for Easter without Fixing 21.2% Cut to Medicare Payments
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Congress has adjourned for a two week recess and guess what they forgot to do before they left? You guessed it; they forgot to approve legislation preventing implementation of a drastic cut in Medicare physician payments. As a result, physician payments under Medicare will be cut 21.3% on Thursday, April 1 - and this is not an April fool's joke.
In what has become standard operating procedure, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold claims for 10 business days as allowed under current law. This means that Congress - specifically the United States Senate - has until Wednesday, April 14 to approve the "Continuing Extension Act of 2010" (HR 4851). H.R. 4851 would extend 2009 Medicare payment rates through April 30. This legislation was approved by the House on March 17.
While Congress is off enjoying their recess, Medicare beneficiaries are left wondering if their physician will be available to them after April 1. You face the uncertainty of not knowing what your Medicare payments will be for services provided and how your practice will survive.
This bipartisan comedy of errors must stop. Call your Senators and Representatives and demand that they take immediate action to prevent the implementation of the 21.3% cut in Medicare payments and demand that they stop jeopardizing access to health care for millions of Medicare patients and military families through their failure to fulfill the promises made to them. It is time for Congress to repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR).
http://capwiz.com/aoa-aoia/utr/1/LUQOMHCOGF/DXQWMHDCGF/4931661281
Congress Adjourns for Easter without Fixing 21.2% Cut to Medicare Payments
Call your Senators and Representatives Now!
click here to call your senators and representatives! ==> http://capwiz.com/aoa-aoia/utr/1/LUQOMHCOGF/DXQWMHDCGF/4931661281
Congress has adjourned for a two week recess and guess what they forgot to do before they left? You guessed it; they forgot to approve legislation preventing implementation of a drastic cut in Medicare physician payments. As a result, physician payments under Medicare will be cut 21.3% on Thursday, April 1 - and this is not an April fool's joke.
In what has become standard operating procedure, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold claims for 10 business days as allowed under current law. This means that Congress - specifically the United States Senate - has until Wednesday, April 14 to approve the "Continuing Extension Act of 2010" (HR 4851). H.R. 4851 would extend 2009 Medicare payment rates through April 30. This legislation was approved by the House on March 17.
While Congress is off enjoying their recess, Medicare beneficiaries are left wondering if their physician will be available to them after April 1. You face the uncertainty of not knowing what your Medicare payments will be for services provided and how your practice will survive.
This bipartisan comedy of errors must stop. Call your Senators and Representatives and demand that they take immediate action to prevent the implementation of the 21.3% cut in Medicare payments and demand that they stop jeopardizing access to health care for millions of Medicare patients and military families through their failure to fulfill the promises made to them. It is time for Congress to repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR).
