Negotiators from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate brokered an agreement September 18 to remove Medicare provisions from the House-approved Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act (CHAMP), according to the American College of Radiology (ACR) of Reston, VA.
Because CHAMP's Medicare provisions were not included in the final legislation, they will be set aside until the Senate addresses Medicare later this fall, ACR said. The House's Medicare package includes a reprieve from the 5% and 10% cuts to physician payments, which were scheduled in 2008 and 2009 under the sustainable growth rate formula. Also included were additional cuts to the technical component of imaging services and language calling for equipment certification requirements for providers of medical imaging.
This new development gives the ACR additional time to work on improving the House language and addressing the imaging cuts contained in CHAMP, the ACR said.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
September 20, 2007
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