[LouAvul]

I’m referring to whatever the other shoe was that fell today, cause the clinic is talking about refusing medicare patients. That’s for treatment, followup care and meds. Let the frakking senile demoRats see first hand what the idiot they voted for is doing.

[Gapplega]

There was legislation that would have reversed the 21% cut in medicare payments for physicians. That did not get passed. So, as of today the docs medicare payments went down 21%. That’s what she’s talking about.

[buckalfa]

Possibly the news you are talking about is that the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS), has again asked Fiscal Intermediaries (the folks who pay claims on behalf of the government),to further suspend claims processing and claims payments with service dates on or after 06/01/2010,at least until today, pending Congressional approval of the Doctor Fix that would restore the 21 percent payment cut that went into effect June 1st.

In other words, no Medicare payments are to be released to doctors until Congress eliminates or accepts the 21% reduction.

Each month this year, CMS has been putting a 10 day hold on claims hoping Congress will do something, but has gone ahead and paid claims at the old rates on the 11th. The something new is the additional 7 day hold. Of course the whole process will be repeated again come July as Congress plays Spanish Inquistion with BP.