Video: Senate Reaches Deal On 12-Month Medicare ‘Doc Fix’

By alley
Dec. 9, 2010

Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News; Jackie Judd,

Lawmakers have a tentative deal to stop scheduled Medicare physician payments for one year. Meanwhile, in Texas a new study shows that the state would lose $15 billion of federal funds in one year if it left the Medicaid program.


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