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antigop

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Wed Apr 15, 2015, 08:28 AM Apr 2015

What is in the Medicare bill that passed? [View all]

http://www.daytondailynews.com/ap/ap/top-news/leaders-try-pushing-medicare-bill-to-final-congres/nktP5/

The bill's chief feature was its annulling of a 1997 law aimed at slowing the growth of Medicare that has repeatedly threatened deep cuts in reimbursements to physicians and led to threats by doctors to stop treating the program's beneficiaries. Congress has blocked 17 reductions since 2003, an exercise that invites intense lobbying and difficult choices about finding budget savings that both parties detested.

Instead, the measure would create a new payment system with financial incentives for physicians to bill Medicare patients for their overall care, not individual office visits.


What is the "new payment system"?
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