In a 64-35 vote Monday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that extends the ICD-10 deadline to at least Oct. 1, 2015.
The bill, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, largely deals with the delay of a reimbursement cuts to physicians under Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula. The bill shields physicians from a 24 percent reimbursement cut scheduled to take effect April 1, 2014 until at least the end of March 2015, and is the 17th short-term legislative solution to avoiding SGR cuts Congress has passed since 2003.
Read the full article on Becker's Hospital Review.
The bill, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, largely deals with the delay of a reimbursement cuts to physicians under Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula. The bill shields physicians from a 24 percent reimbursement cut scheduled to take effect April 1, 2014 until at least the end of March 2015, and is the 17th short-term legislative solution to avoiding SGR cuts Congress has passed since 2003.
Read the full article on Becker's Hospital Review.