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AMA, Physician Groups Tell Congress: Action Needed to Stop Medicare Crisis for Seniors
September 30, 2010The AMA, along with medical societies representing 50 states and the District of Columbia and 65 national physician organizations, united to send a strong message to Congress - immediate action is needed to stop the drastic 30 percent Medicare payment cuts looming at the end of this year to protect seniors' access to health care.
Congress has repeatedly failed to fix the flawed Medicare physician payment formula, relying instead on temporary reprieves from scheduled cuts. The latest of these temporary delays stabilized Medicare physician payments only through the end of November. If action is not taken quickly by Congress, on December 1 Medicare payments for physician services will be slashed by more than 23 percent. An additional cut of 6.5 percent will follow on January 1. Full release
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