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Volume 49 July 2010 No. 1<br />
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Medicare fee `patch'<br />
brings 2.2% increase<br />
President Barack Obama<br />
has signed Medicare fee<br />
“patch” legislation to<br />
retroactively override a 21 per-<br />
cent cut in the Medicare<br />
Physician Fee Schedule<br />
(MPFS) that had been sched-<br />
uled to take effect June 1. The<br />
legislation will instead provide<br />
physicians a 2.2 percent<br />
increase in their reimburse-<br />
ment levels for six months.<br />
AOA Advocacy Group<br />
Director Jon Hymes credited<br />
last month's enactment of The<br />
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