{"id":566,"date":"2009-07-10T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2009-07-10T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T21:16:00","slug":"acc-aghast-at-proposed-cuts-to-cardiology-payments-in-medicare-physician-fee-schedule-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"ACC aghast at proposed cuts to cardiology payments in Medicare physician fee schedule for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theheart.org\/article\/983741.do?utm_source=et&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Founder_CPT071009act\">ACC aghast at proposed cuts to cardiology payments in Medicare physician fee schedule for 2010<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Baltimore, MD &#8211; The US Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced its planned 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), colloquially known as &#8216;the update,&#8217; which includes proposals expected to result in an overall payment cut of 11% for cardiology [1].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Offered without comment, except to say scroll down and read the comments of the ACC members&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACC aghast at proposed cuts to cardiology payments in Medicare physician fee schedule for 2010: &#8220;Baltimore, MD &#8211; The US Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ACC aghast at proposed cuts to cardiology payments in Medicare physician fee schedule for 2010&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physician-income","category-physician-opinion"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}