Nov 2 2010
Kaiser Health News staff writers Andrew Villegas and Mary Agnes Carey, working in collaboration with
The Washington Post, talked with the AMA president about action surrounding Medicare payment issues: "While most people are focused on the midterm elections Tuesday, the American Medical Association is gearing up for the lame-duck congressional session scheduled to start Nov. 15. Unless Congress intervenes, payments to doctors for treating Medicare patients will be cut by 23 percent on Dec. 1 and another 6.5 percent on Jan. 1" (Villegas and Carey, 11/1).
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