PBS NewsHour

House approves permanent fix for Medicare doctor payment

Clip: 03/26/2015 | 4m 50s

For more than a decade, doctors who treat Medicare patients have been threatened with pay cuts due to a faulty formula of how doctors are reimbursed. But in a rare bipartisan agreement, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a deal to permanently end the problem and reward quality of care, not quantity. Gwen Ifill learns more from Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News.

Aired: 03/26/15

Rating: NR

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