Medicare is not off the hook yet. Congress overrode a presidential veto this week to protect doctors from a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement rates, Nashville Business Journal reports. Now, they get a raise – up to 1.1% in 2009.

Nearly 60% of Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) determinations in New York State were given back to facilities after appeals, the Healthcare Association of New York reports.