Congress Still Trying To Fix Medicare Doctor Payment Hole

Congress is wrapping up new legislation that aims to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance, and they attached a provision to protect payments to Medicare physicians to the bill. The hope is that enough legislators will overlook the "Doctor Fix" and vote only on the payroll tax and unemployment insurance parts of the package. House Republicans indicated that they intend to split the "Doctor Fix" portion from the rest of the bill, but said that it was too early to know how it would play out.

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