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Doctors' group turns up heat on Medicare payments

6/9/2010

Reuters
By: Donna Smith
June 3, 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American Medical Association turned up the heat on the U.S. Congress on Thursday for failing to stop a 21 percent Medicare pay cut for doctors treating elderly patients.

The doctors group said it launched a multimillion dollar ad campaign criticizing the U.S. Senate for going on a week-long Memorial Day break before acting on a bill that would have postponed the pay cut that went into effect on June 1.

"The AMA will not sit silent while the Senate fails to fulfill its obligation to seniors and the baby boomers who begin to enter the program in just six months when the first wave turns 65," AMA President James Rohack said during a telep...

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