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2013 Payment:

Congress Votes to Halt Across-the-Board Pay Cuts

Published on Tue Jan 08, 2013

Permanent solutions to fix this annual problem did not materialize, however. As many pediatric practices are aware, medical offices nationwide were waiting to find out whether legislators halted a 26.5 percent pay cut that the 2013 Fee Schedule predicted, which would have brought the 2013 conversion factor down to $25.0008. In addition, practices were facing a two percent across-the-board sequestration [...]
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