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Without Fix, Docs Face 30% Medicare Pay Cut In 2012
This new figure, updated yesterday by Medicare officials from the previous 28.3 percent "cliff," means the President's plan to keep physician payments flat for the next two years will exceed - by as much as a billion dollars - the funding requested in his 2012 budget proposal.
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