Committee Evaluates Impact Of Planned Cut To Medicare Physician Fee Payments, USA

We all know the end result here if this passes and I truly hope stories like this one with Medicare outsourcing to WellPoint are not the answer to solving the upcoming crisis for funding Medicare...in an earlier story this will have a huge effect on rehabilitation compensation for therapists too...no referral from an MD, no rehab to speak of either....view the video below for an update on the committee comments...BD

Small medical practices provide essential services and ensure all patients have access to quality care. However, cuts to Medicare physician fee payments threaten to undermine the work of
these firms. Committee Members heard from the Deputy Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). They also received testimony from a panel of health care providers, who noted the planned cuts would greatly limit services to the nation's neediest communities.