WASHINGTON — Docs will get a 1.68% pay hike in Medicare beginning March 9 beneath a deal struck over the weekend to fund a part of the federal government.
The pay bump is amongst a number of Medicare cost insurance policies that now will run till the top of December. That year-end deadline traces up with the expiration of telehealth pay insurance policies, setting the stage for a big well being legislative bundle and giving Congress one other shot at aligning hospital and physician workplace funds and reforming the enterprise practices of drug middlemen.
The bipartisan invoice, agreed to by leaders within the Home and Senate, comes forward of a authorities spending deadline on March 8. There’s a second tranche of funding payments set to run out March 22 however measures of concern to the well being care sector are included within the first set.
