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Medicare Physician Pay Cut
AAFP Statement: Passage of Medicare Bill is First Step to Stabilizing Health Care Access for the Elderly and Disabled
-- The American Academy of Family Physicians applauds the Senate’s passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (HR 6331).
AAFP Statement: 30-day Extension Will Not Resolve Medicare Physician Payment Issue
-- The American Academy of Family Physicians does not support a 30-day stop-gap measure that would freeze Medicare physician payment at the level paid before July 1.
AAFP Statement:Senate’s Failure to Address Medicare Payment Ill Serves America’s Elderly and Disabled Patients
-- The American Academy of Family Physicians is dismayed and deeply disappointed that the U.S. Senate has failed in its responsibility to enact legislation to prevent a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare physician payment to take effect July 1.
AAFP Statement: Senate Must Quickly Pass House-Approved Medicare Legislation
-- The American Academy of Family Physicians is pleased that the U.S. House has passed HR 6331, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, with such a strong majority. Such a vote reflects the outpouring of physician involvement in this issue.
AAFP Statement: Medicare Legislation Helps Avert Potentially Devastating Pay Cut
-- The American Academy of Family Physicians appreciates efforts by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to avert the 10.6 percent reduction in Medicare payment to physicians, which is scheduled to go into effect on July 1.
Family Physicians Endorse Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act
-- Legislation that averts a Medicare physician pay cut in July and provides a 1.1 percent Medicare increase in 2009 promises a measure of stability for both patients and the physicians who care for them.
Congress Should Act Now to Pass Bipartisan Medicare Legislation
-- The American Academy of Family Physicians applauds and supports efforts by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and his colleagues in both parties to ensure that America’s Medicare patients have access to health care.
Map Demonstrates That States Will Lose Billions in Medicare Physician Payments -- View Medicare payment cuts for physician services
by state.
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Practice Costs Rise as Medicare Payment Plummets -- Without congressional intervention, Medicare will slash physician payments about 40 percent over nine years beginning in 2008.
(1-page PDF file; About PDFs)
(1-page PDF file; About PDFs)
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