Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office says the Senate won't vote on the tax extenders bill containing the Medicare payment fix today, tomorrow or Monday, June 14. This means the scheduled 21.3% cut to Medicare payments will go through, after a 10-day claims hold, on the 14th.
The earliest the bill could be approved is Tuesday, a Reid spokesman says. I've heard Reid say on the floor via CSPAN that Senators will be visiting their districts on Friday and Monday, so no votes are scheduled.
Medicare Administrative Contractors can start processing clean electronic claims with a dates of service of June 1 (that were submitted on June 1) with the reduced reimbursement rate on Tuesday.
Who knows when Congress will get around to taking a vote. One Medicare consultant I've talked to suggested that providers hold claims until this pay fix mess is sorted out.