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In a Statement , the White House Press Secretary announced that the President signed the Temporary Extension Act of 2010 (H.R.4691) into law on March 2, 2010. Among other things, H.R.4691 delays the scheduled 21.2 percent Medicare payment reduction for physician services until April 1, 2010.  In December 2009, the President signed the Department... 

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Dr. William Jones spent years losing money on medicaid and Medicare patients — until he stopped seeing them.“You can’t make money caring for them,” the Austin primary care physician said. “A lot of my colleagues are hanging on by their fingernails because their medicaid and medicare patients are such a negative cash flow.” [Original News... 

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