Doctors in Congress Look for Permanent Fix to Medicare Pay Woes

The doctors in the House want to revamp how Medicare pays physicians, potentially giving health-care providers a boost in pay in coming years.

Lawmakers with medical backgrounds say the time is right and they’re in key positions this Congress to end what’s become an annual frustration of averting billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare pay to doctors and hospitals. The annual cuts to the public health insurance program for the elderly and disabled are a side effect of the current pay structure and rules Congress set up to curb federal spending. But, those ...