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AMA brings Medicare message to Ohio

Ambulatory Surgery Reimbursement Update, August 30, 2005

The American Medical Association (AMA) brought its concerns about future access-to-care problems for Medicare patients to Ohio last week.

The state has about 1.7 million Medicare patients, according to a statement from the AMA.

In addition to holding a press conference to discuss the effects of scheduled Medicare cuts of 26% over the next six years, the AMA and the Ohio State Medical Association (OSMA) unveiled a series of newspaper and radio ads encouraging patients to contact congressional leaders to ask them to support two bills pending in the U.S. House and one in the U.S. Senate that would stop the cuts.

"Ohio physicians want to keep treating their Medicare patients, but they are concerned about harsh Medicare cuts," said Molly Katz, MD,, president of OSMA. "In Ohio, Medicare payments to physicians will be cut nearly $5 billion over the next six years-that's a huge loss of federal dollars that should be going toward caring for our state's Medicare patients."

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