Doctors’ lobby blasts Senate for leaving town without vote on Medicare pay
Key members of the doctors’ lobby are “extremely disappointed” the Senate did not take up a House-passed overhaul to Medicare’s payment system before skipping town for spring break.
In a statement Friday, the American Medical Association said the upper chamber has exposed doctors to a 21 percent pay cut when the new month begins.
They registered their anger one day after the House overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill to permanently cancel Medicare budget cuts that eat into ph