In the face of objections from members of his own party, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is backing away from a plan to keep doctors who treat Medicare patients from experiencing drastic ...

Last Sunday, Congress released the text of a minibus package, which will likely be signed into law by tomorrow. While the bill’s primary purpose is to keep the government open, it also includes ...

Here we go again! For the second year in a row, we enter the new year without Congress enacting a doc fix or Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) bonus extension. While Congress did act last year ...

Congress may have rolled the country back from the so-called fiscal cliff, but the budget legislation passed this week missed a chance to fix doctors’ pay for treating Medicare patients -- a problem ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Congress is headed toward a bipartisan solution to fix a Medicare formula that threatens to slash payments to doctors every year. The so-called "doc fix" would replace the cuts ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) lost the first floor battle of the healthcare reform debate Wednesday when 12 Democrats and one Independent joined all Republicans to defeat a bill to halt ...

Physician groups and other advocates for overhauling the Medicare payment system will lose three of their biggest Capitol Hill supporters to retirement next year, raising questions about next steps ...