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| WASHINGTON, DC – The Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights (CPPR) Spokesman Dr. Donald Palmisano last week traveled to Orlando and Tampa senior centers to discuss how the Affordable Care Act’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) will result in diminished quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries across the country.
“IPAB is a panel of 15 unelected bureaucrats who will be charged with cutting what is expected to be billions of dollars a year from the Medicare program when spending exceeds targeted growth rates,” said Dr. Palmisano at Renaissance Senior Center in Orlando Florida. “IPAB’s cuts, which will most likely cut reimbursement rates doctors receive for treating Medicare patients, could leave doctors across the county no choice but to limit the amount of Medicare patients they see, or stop serving them altogether. It is important that seniors push their lawmakers to repeal IPAB and keep Medicare decision making in the hands of Congress where it belongs.”
IPAB’s cost cutting decisions would become law unless overridden by a supermajority vote in Congress. Congress would further be required to come up with a cost cutting package of equal size to sustain their override. IPAB is scheduled to make its first recommendations in 2015. |
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| By Donald J. Palmisano, M.D., published in the The Hill's Congress Blog
As lawmakers and patients learn what the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) really will mean for seniors, the topic has become a contentious one across the country.
IPAB is a 15-member panel of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats responsible for making recommendations to cut Medicare costs in years when spending exceeds targeted growth rates. Congress has given a small group the power to make decisions by majority vote with only the necessity that a quorum of 8 be present. This panel has, in essence, eternal life, and can determine what funding is given to pay for medical care. The law says no rationing but cutting off funds can have the same effect and stifle innovation.
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A broad coalition of healthcare stakeholders lent their support Friday to repealing a controversial cost-cutting panel established under healthcare reform.
All told, some 270 stakeholder groups signed a letter to members of Congress urging them to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB is a panel of experts, appointed by the president, that will have the power to cut Medicare payments.
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Congressional Republicans have had some success in shifting the healthcare debate back to the reform law, but speculation about health entitlement cuts in a debt-ceiling deal could thwart their momentum.
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The nation's largest doctors group this week formally called for the repeal of a key plank in the Democrats' health care overhaul -- a new board tasked with reining in the growth of Medicare.
The so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board was one of several "defects" in the law that representatives of the American Medical Association voted against at their annual meeting in Chicago.
The organization, which offered its qualified support for the health care overhaul before final passage last spring, named the Medicare board at the top of its list of "needed changes" in the law.
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