Medicare Reverses Plan to Pause Doctor Payments Amid Shutdown
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has backed off a plan to pause Medicare payments to doctors amid the government shutdown.
Initially, the agency stated it would pause all Medicare payments to physicians, but later reversed this decision, announcing that it would only delay processing claims related to expired programs, such as telehealth or rural services.
Update: This story has been updated to show that CMS has reversed its earlier statement indicating that it would pause all Medicare payments to physicians.
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Author's summary: Medicare reverses plan to pause doctor payments.