{"id":52,"date":"2010-11-30T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=52"},"modified":"2014-09-10T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:10:20","slug":"new-legislation-delays-medicare-physician-reimbursement-cut-for-an-additional-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2010\/11\/30\/new-legislation-delays-medicare-physician-reimbursement-cut-for-an-additional-month\/","title":{"rendered":"New Legislation Delays Medicare Physician Reimbursement Cut for an Additional Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 30, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the <a href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&amp;docid=f:h5712enr.txt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Physician Payment and Therapy Relief Act of 2010<\/a>. This legislation implements a one-month delay to a significant reduction in reimbursement\u2014a 23-percent pay cut\u2014for physicians treating Medicare beneficiaries. The legislation also provides a 2.2-percent reimbursement increase for physicians. The reimbursement reduction will go into effect, beginning on December 31, 2010. Both the Obama administration and Congress hope to use this delay to develop a long-term solution.<\/p>\n<p>For more information regarding the Physician Payment and Therapy Relief Act of 2010, please go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d111:HR05712:@@@D&amp;summ2=m&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d111:HR05712:@@@D&amp;summ2=m&amp;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 30, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Physician Payment and Therapy Relief Act of 2010. This legislation implements a one-month delay to a significant reduction in reimbursement\u2014a 23-percent pay cut\u2014for physicians treating Medicare beneficiaries. The legislation also provides a 2.2-percent reimbursement increase for physicians. The reimbursement reduction will go into effect, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2010\/11\/30\/new-legislation-delays-medicare-physician-reimbursement-cut-for-an-additional-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Legislation Delays Medicare Physician Reimbursement Cut for an Additional Month&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,10,32,20],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-reform","tag-hospitals-reform-updates","tag-medicare","tag-physicians-reform-updates","tag-reform-where-is-the-money"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}