AMA Joins Texas Physicians to Urge U.S. Congressional Action to Halt Medicare Cuts
Posted on: Monday, 31 October 2005, 15:01 CST
News Advisory:
-- AMA Joins Texas Physicians To Urge U.S. Congressional Action To Halt Medicare Cuts
-- Physicians at AMA meeting draw attention to looming Medicare physician payment cuts, impact on seniors' access to care
WHO:
-- American Medical Association (AMA) President J. Edward Hill, M.D.
-- Texas Medical Association (TMA)
-- Dallas County Medical Society (DCMS)
-- Military Officers Association of America (MOAA)
WHAT: Press Conference
WHY: Impending Medicare physician payment cuts of 26 percent over the next six years will harm seniors' access to physician care. More than 1/3 of physicians say they will stop taking new Medicare patients if the cuts occur. Only Congressional action before January 1 can stop the Medicare physician payment cuts.
Physician leaders will discuss the impact of the cuts on the national, state and local level -- including a survey of Dallas physicians -- and urge immediate Congressional action.
WHEN: Monday, Nov. 7, 12 noon
Lunch provided
WHERE: Dallas Wyndham Anatole
2201 Stemmons Freeway
Dallas, Texas
Trinity Exhibition Center
AMA Press Availability Room
http://www.usnewswire.com
Source: U.S. Newswire
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