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Home » Docs demand a long-term “fix” | MassDevice.com On Call

Docs demand a long-term “fix” | MassDevice.com On Call

June 11, 2012 By MassDevice staff

MassDevice On Call

MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Medical students and internists mobbed Capitol Hill last week to ask Congress to establish a more permanent fix to a long-running Medicare payment issue.

Every year Congress has scrambled to come up with a band-aid measure to prevent deep Medicare cuts, a measure colloquially called the "doc fix."

Each “doc fix” has delayed the cuts for another year without making changes to the underlying law.

"We’re certainly hearing it’s likely the can will be kicked ahead one year forward," former American College of Physicians president Dr. Fred Ralston told MedPageToday. "We’re disappointed in this and we’ve been hearing this every year for more years than I can count."

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Filed Under: Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Medicare, News Well Tagged With: Clinical Trials, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), On Call, U.S. Congress

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