Medicare Advantage Payments to Insurers Will Be Cut

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) needs to be reauthorized by the Congress. That will cost $13 to $15 billion over the next five years--something I detailed in an earlier post.Compounding the S-CHIP budget dilemma, Medicare physicians are scheduled to have their fee payments cut by 10% on January 1, 2008.When the last Congress reversed the scheduled 5% fee cut for 2007, in