The Senate will not act on a Medicare payment fix before Memorial Day and allow the scheduled 21.2% sustainable growth rate (SGR) cut to go through.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this morning (May 28) they would wait for the House to act before considering the pay fix. The Senate is set to recess for the Memorial Day holiday and will return on June 7.
The temporary fix would replace the cut with a 2.2% increase retroactive to June 1. In 2011, reimbursement rates would increase by 1%. The House will vote on the measure sometime today.