Hooray! The Medicare “Doc Fix” Is Fixed Until March 31

Once again, Congress pretends to have fixed the unfixable: The way Medicare pays doctors. An earlier blog entry describes how Medicare pays physicians by using a method that puts the old Soviet Gosplan to shame. The simplest description is that a government-authorized committee determines how much time it takes a doctor to do a procedure. […]



via John Goodman's Health Policy Blog http://healthblog.ncpa.org/hooray-the-medicare-doc-fix-is-fixed-until-march-31/