Medicare doctors await reprieve for 27.4% cut
Posted: December 21, 2011 at 4:20 a.m.
Nearly 650,000 doctors caring for millions of senior citizens will get a steep cut in Medicare payments Jan. 18 unless a gridlocked Congress issues a reprieve, program officials said Tuesday.
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