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Medicare Physician Payments: 2007 and Beyond
9/28/2006
The Alliance of Specialty Medicine recognizes the challenges that lawmakers face in creating an equitable Medicare physician payment system that includes quality improvement, and which will lead to genuinely improved quality for Medicare beneficiaries.
We applaud the leadership of Chairman Barton, Ranking Member Dingell, Dr. Burgess, and other Republicans and Democrats on this committee for addressing the serious, perennial crisis with declining Medicare physician payments. We sincerely thank you for your willingness to work cooperatively with the physician community.
The Alliance is ready to work with the committee to ensure that the Medicare physician payment system is sustainable for the long-term for patients and their specialty physicians, and would ask that this issue be the first order of business when Congress returns from the elections. At this time, I would be happy to answer questions from the subcommittee members. Thank you.
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