The Obama administration also will look into removing physician-administered drugs from the calculation of the Medicare pay formula.
By Chris Silva, AMNews staff. Posted May 18, 2009.
Washington -- Preventing Medicare pay cuts for physicians and finding funding for additional rate updates could prove easier if Congress follows a health budget released May 7 by President Obama.
The president's fiscal 2010 budget for the Dept. of Health & Human Services totals $879 billion in outlays, an increase of $63 billion over fiscal 2009. Although it calls for additional spending in several areas, it also proposes saving hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare so the money can be spent elsewhere, possibly on boosting physician pay or other reforms.....
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