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Originally Posted by CFrance
According to FoxNews Politics,
Congress passes bill to stop cut in payments to Medicare doctors | Fox News
there has not been a cut to the payments made to doctors by Medicare since 1997, except for one in 2002. Every year it comes up, and every year congress passes a last-minute patch to the proposed cuts. Would someone who thinks Medicare keeps cutting payments to doctors correct me with facts if I am wrong? (Not trying to be a wiseacre; just trying to understand the situation.) |
"Cuts to teaching hospitals and graduate medical education (residency training) payments.
The budget proposes reducing Medicare add-on payments to teaching hospitals by 10 percent.
Typically, hospitals receive those add-on payments to cover the indirect costs of teaching new physicians. In addition, HHS would encourage teaching hospitals to train more primary care residents through new GME payment standards.
Teaching hospitals would lose $960 million in Medicare payments in this upcoming year alone and more than $14.6 billion during the next decade."
Obama's Budget for 2015: 10 Points for Hospitals Know