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Medicare faces cuts next week without congressional action The Sun Share     Unless Congress steps in this week, Medicare will begin paying doctors less, which could make it harder for seniors to find doctors willing to see them. Medicare rates are set to be cut by 21 percent on March 1. Congress has postponed cuts before, but with the deadline fast approaching, the American Medical Association and other doctors' groups are urging Congress to do so again. "Congress needs to fix this payment system," said Rebecca Patchin, a professor at Loma Linda University and chairwoman of the AMA Board of Trustees. "It's going to be difficult for physicians to provide care to Medicare recipients." More
The latest on Obama's health care summit MSNBC Share
President Barack Obama argued Thursday that a sweeping overhaul of the nation's broken health care system is imperative for the nation's future economic vitality, clashing in an extraordinary live-on-TV summit with Republicans who want far more modest changes. "We believe we have a better idea," declared GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander. With the marathon policy debate available from start to finish to a divided public, Obama cast the health care crisis as "one of the biggest drags on our economy," painting his overhaul effort as critical to the economic revival that's even more pressing to many Americans. More ACEP raises alarm over emergency department closures PR Newswire Share
As members of Congress and President Obama meet this week about health care reform, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) today raised alarm over the recent closure of an emergency department in Cincinnati and reports of more ERs on the brink of closure in New York and Washington, D.C. Saying these closures are especially troubling because health care reform has stalled and President Obama's new proposal does not address any of the critical problems facing emergency patients, Dr. Angela Gardner, president of ACEP, urged national policymakers to recognize the need to preserve America's emergency departments, which care for people when seconds count. More Physicians say Medicaid cuts would hurt care Virginia Business Share
Budget cuts proposed by Virginia legislators could prompt many physicians to restrict the number of Medicaid patients they see. A survey released this week by the Medical Society of Virginia found that a Medicaid budget cut of up to 5 percent would cause 41.5 percent of the respondents to stop taking new patients while another 22.3 percent would stop participating in Medicaid entirely. More The emergency department may not be the best source for physician supervision candidates AIS Health Share
Hospitals shouldn’t rely too much on emergency department physicians to provide supervision of outpatient therapeutic services, such as observation, the medical director of a major Medicare contractor tells RMC. Given the "unpredictable" nature of the ED, hospitals would be hard-pressed to prove to auditors that ED physicians met Medicare's recently modified definition of a "supervising physician," says Bernice Hecker, M.D., medical director for Noridian Administrative Services, the Medicare administrative contractor for 10 western states. More |
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