NAHC Members Urged to Contact their Elected Officials During Ongoing Budget Conference Committee Negotiations and Congressional Efforts to Fix Medicare Physician Payment Formula

A Congressional budget conference committee is currently attempting to negotiate discretionary spending levels for next year, with a deadline of December 13 to report back to Congress.  As part of these discussions, suggestions have been made to substitute some mandatory spending cuts, such as from Medicare and Social Security, for some of the discretionary spending cuts under…