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News Flash: Last Minute Congressional Action Saves Physicians from a Nearly 10% Cut to Medicare Payments

Sheppard Health Law

The Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act ( S. Senate on December 9, 2021. The Act includes: A one-year increase in the Medicare PFS of 3%; A delay in resuming the 2% Medicare sequester for three months, followed by a reduction to 1% for three months; and. 610 ) was approved by the U.S.

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Taking Back The Business of Healthcare with Preston Alexander| E. 67

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Preston explains that the principal issue with US healthcare is its profit-driven approach, why healthcare must be a forward-thinking Netflix, rather than an obsolete Blockbuster, and why the nursing shortage is the result of a broken system. Why it all comes down to ‘’infusing more empathy in everything we do.’’

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Exposing Healthcare Fraud with Jonathan Tycko| E. 68

Vie Healthcare

about 15 years ago, I got a call from a person who was involved in one of these cases and he says, “I’m a relator in a qui tam lawsuit and I’m looking for a new lawyer to help me with an appeal.” Not one of those people who comes from a family of doctors or anything like that either.