Reply #20: have they resumed making Medicare payments?

[cosmicdot]

now, that it's October and a new fiscal year?

(surely, Halliburton's invoices got paid)


U.S. to Delay Medicare Provider Payments

By KEVIN FREKING
The Associated Press

Thursday, August 24, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Many health care providers will have to make do next
month without a government paycheck or two. The Bush administration
says it will not make any Medicare reimbursements to hospitals,
doctors and scores of other providers during the last nine days of the
current budget year, from Sept. 22-30. Congress ordered the hold.

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By delaying payments, the government moves $5.2 billion in Medicare
expenses to next year's budget, rather than the current one.

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http://www.gatago.com/alt/social-security-disability/27461112.html


of course, they, also, plan to further reduce payment amounts for services further in the new fiscal year (increasing out of pocket expenses of Medicare citizens) ... maybe that'll help their budget games ... guess Scott McClellan's brother Mark is leaving Medicare, now, that he's done some damage


AMA Seeks Delay in Medicare Payment Cuts

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay ReporterThu Sep 7, 11:48 PM ET

THURSDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) -- If proposed cuts in Medicare payments to physicians take effect early next year as planned, many U.S. doctors would be forced to limit the number of older Americans they can see as patients, the American Medical Association said Thursday.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20060908/hl_hsn/amaseeksdelayinmedicarepaymentcuts&printer=1