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NAUH asks House Members to sign onto letter to support the use of unneeded war funds to pay for the Medicare "Doc Fix", February 6, 2012.
NAUH asked House members to sign onto a letter circulating among their colleagues, to be sent to the payroll tax conference committee, asking the conferees to pay for the latest Medicare doc fix with unneeded money from the Overseas Contingency Operations fund and to repeal the sustained growth rate formula (SGR) that causes the perennial problem with Medicare payments to physicians.
NAUH repeats its call for House Members to sign onto letter to protect Urban Safety-Net hospitals, January 24, 2012.
NAUH reiterated its call for House members to sign onto a letter circulating among their colleagues, to be sent to the conference committee for the payroll tax cut and SGR extenders bill, asking the conferees to protect urban safety-net hospitals from any further cuts to Medicare or Medicaid.
NAUH asks House Members to sign onto letter to protect Urban Safety-Net hospitals, January 19, 2012.
NAUH asked House members to sign onto a letter circulating among their colleagues, to be sent to the conference committee for the payroll tax cut and SGR extenders bill, asking the conferees to protect urban safety-net hospitals from any further cuts to Medicare or Medicaid.
NAUH Asks Conference Committee Not to Reduce Medicare Payments to Urban Safety-Net Hospitals, January 10, 2012.
NAUH wrote to all members of Congress to express its support for a Medicare doc fix but also to urge members not to pay for the doc fix, or for any of the other measures currently being addressed by the payroll tax/SGR extension conference committee, by taking funds from Medicare and reducing Medicare payments to urban safety-net hospitals.