TAFP President issues statement to TAFP members on congressional failure to avert Medicare cut
“Congress has had more than a year to repeal the flawed Medicare payment formula and avert a 21.2-percent cut to physicians, and they have failed at every opportunity to do so. This crisis is Congress’ creation and the politics leading to this failure are maddeningly disingenuous,” said TAFP President Kaparaboyna Ashok Kumar, M.D. more...

Senate abandons effort to block Medicare physician fee cut
The U.S. Senate adjourned and went home early today after failing to pass a measure that would have delayed the scheduled Medicare physician fee cut. CMS will hold physician payments for 10 business days beginning March 1 in hopes that Congress will act soon. more...

AAFP President issues statement on congressional failure to avert Medicare cut
“The American Academy of Family Physicians is deeply angered at congressional failure to avert the mandated 21.2-percent Medicare physician pay cut. This inaction — in the face of virtually universal calls by the medical community and advocates for Medicare beneficiaries — has put elderly and disabled patients at risk of losing access to care and imposed potentially devastating fiscal hardship on physicians,” said AAFP President, Lori Heim, M.D. more...