A coalition of 31 food groups is heading efforts to keep new food fees out of the administration's forthcoming fiscal 2013 budget, urging HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the White House Office of Management and Budget in a Jan. 30 letter to focus instead on securing more appropriations for food safety activities.
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February 01, 2012 |
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Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-NY), a conferee negotiating on the Medicare physician payment fix, told Inside Health Policy that she is open to counting a reduction in war spending as an offset for permanently replacing the Sustainable Growth Rate formula.
January 31, 2012 |
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There are still plenty of war savings left that could be used to pay for fixing the Medicare physician pay formula, according to the 2012 budget outlook that the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday morning (Jan. 31), bolstering calls by providers for a permanent Sustainable Growth Rate fix paid for with savings from troop drawdowns. Troop drawdowns would save $838 billion over 10 years, CBO says, and keeping physician rates at their current levels for that same period would cost $316 billion, up from a June estimate of just under $300 billion.
January 27, 2012 |
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House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee Chair Joe Pitts (R-PA) said he wants to cut spending from the health overhaul law to pay for delaying for two to three years a 27.4 percent cut to Medicare physician payment, which would do away with the need for hospital-pay cuts that were included in the House-passed Sustainable Growth Rate formula two-year patch. Pitts opposes the idea of using war savings as an offset, although other Republicans appear to be warming to the idea.
January 26, 2012 |
Daily News
House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee Chair Joe Pitts (R-PA) is pushing for a two- or three-year Medicare physician payment fix paid for through Medicare cuts, and opposes the idea of using war savings as an offset although other Republicans appear to be warming to the idea.
January 26, 2012 |
Daily News
This year's appropriations process could be more difficult for FDA than it has been in recent years because of a more constrained budget environment, the unlikelihood that major initiatives -- like the food safety law -- will continue to enjoy funding hikes, new funding needs that could surface through the reauthorization of user fees and a looming budget sequestration put in motion by the super committee's failure to hammer out a deficit plan, although the agency continues to have strong funding advocates, sources said.
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