Physicians have faced a 21% cut in payment from Medicare long before Obama became president and, thus, long before health care reform was more than a gleam in the eye of its proponents.
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Because the IPAB will be required to make changes that demonstrate actual savings in a one-year time frame, the only tool the board will realistically have will be to cut Medicare payment rates for those providing services and medicines to beneficiaries.
Consequently, the AMA is right back where it started, begging every year for a temporary reprieve from a cut in payment rates that will exceed 31 percent next January unless Congress steps in (as it has regularly for the past decade) to give it a reprieve.
The heat stays on, utilities get their cash, and 3Ci, meanwhile, gets a small cut of each payment.
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Does anybody think doctors would treat Medicare patients or that nursing homes would accept Medicaid residents in the wake of a 15 percent payment cut?
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For part of the year I managed to qualify for a government subsidy for artists, which cut my COBRA payment in half and made it almost doable.
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He accepted governments choose where the axe should fall when cutting public spending but said the decision about whether to "carry on with Labour's planned cut in the winter fuel payment... and cold weather payment, was a difficult one".
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Medicaid payment rates to physicians were cut across the board by 3% in April, which is expected to lead to reduced services for the poor and disabled in rural areas.
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All the websites operate the same basic business model: they make it easy for sellers and buyers of services to find each other, they arrange for payment and they take a cut.
Like all government funded spending in the UK, payment for care homes is being cut.
The idea is that in exchange for getting to defer or cut regular taxes you must make a partial payment now via the AMT.
In theory, in the worst cases, the parts of the banks that are thought to be most important to keeping the rest of the financial system functioning smoothly, for instance their deposit books and payment systems, will be quickly cut out and transplanted into a healthy bank or kept on life support.
Prices were cut by over-valuing the goods received in payment.
In fact, SOPA does include provisions to block payments and advertising on infringing sites, allowing copyright holders to file complaints with the payment providers and advertisers directly and only giving the infringing site five days from the time of that filing to respond before the payment firms and advertisers are legally obliged to cut off the site.
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Payment services like Google and Amazon take a small cut of the transaction, but they allow customers to skip all the form fields simply by entering a password.
Because Medicaid is funded via a match of funds from states and the federal government, cash-strapped states that have cut from their programs in also lost federal dollars, allowing payment rates to fall far behind.
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Facebook takes a 30% cut of sales of virtual goods, which are bought using its Credits payment system.
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Skillshare helps amateur teachers find classroom space, register students and collect payment for in-person courses, taking a 15% cut of student fees in the process.
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They cut back on their medical costs by visiting doctors less and taking their prescription medicine less frequently after the co-payment increase, due in part to their fixed incomes.
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