Comments on: Cutting Medicare Physician Payments – Beyond the 10.6% http://www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2008/06/22/cutting-medicare-physician-payments-%e2%80%93-beyond-the-106/ A Forum for Discussing and Analyzing Healthcare Issues Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:07:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Truga http://www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2008/06/22/cutting-medicare-physician-payments-%e2%80%93-beyond-the-106/#comment-620 Truga Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:40:11 +0000 http://www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2008/06/22/cutting-medicare-physician-payments-%e2%80%93-beyond-the-106/#comment-620 I have been sending the following note to all senators. The format was obtained from the American Academy of Family Physicians. You can do the same by following the instructions on AAFP website. Dear Senator ____: As an internist, I urge you to support the Medicare improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (S. 3101). The bill would keep the Medicare payment rate to physicians at the current level. Unless Congress acts to stop the pay-cuts, internist payments will be hit with an 11 percent decrease in Medicare payments after June 30. I need the present Medicare payments to help my costs in doing business. I urge you to support the Baucus Medicare bill and help internists stay in business and continue to provide quality care for Medicare recipients. The consequences will be dire if the pay-cuts are not stopped. The physicians are very serious this time in not providing care to Medicare patients. STOP THE PAY-CUTS!! I have been sending the following note to all senators. The format was obtained from the American Academy of Family Physicians. You can do the same by following the instructions on AAFP website.

Dear Senator ____:

As an internist, I urge you to support the Medicare improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (S. 3101).

The bill would keep the Medicare payment rate to physicians at the current level. Unless Congress acts to stop the pay-cuts, internist payments will be hit with an 11 percent decrease in Medicare payments after June 30. I need the present Medicare payments to help my costs in doing business.

I urge you to support the Baucus Medicare bill and help internists stay in business and continue to provide quality care for Medicare recipients. The consequences will be dire if the pay-cuts are not stopped. The physicians are very serious this time in not providing care to Medicare patients. STOP THE PAY-CUTS!!

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