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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
CBO Portends 'Heavy Lifting' To Avert Medicare Doc Pay Reduction
The report offers cost estimates for a range of approaches that would head off a 29.4 percent reduction in Medicare physician payments scheduled to kick in Jan. 1, 2012. Meanwhile, in other news, a plan to curb the overuse of costly medical imaging demonstrates the difficulties posed by attempting even small changes in the health insurance program for seniors.
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