Medicare News Blog

Congress has known for a decade that the formula it set in 1997 for adjusting physician payments under Medicare — and by extension the fees paid to civilian doctors under Tricare, the military’s health insurance program — is seriously flawed and can’t be allowed to take effect.

Congress has known for a decade that the formula it set in 1997 for adjusting physician payments under Medicare — and by extension the fees paid to civilian doctors under Tricare, the military’s health insurance program — is seriously flawed and can’t be allowed to take effect.