The passage of the bill means the 21 percent payment cuts should end. However, as CMS updates its system some providers will still experience the pay cuts temporarily. These providers will later be reimbursed when CMS updates its systems and is able to re-process their claims, according to the report.
“It takes a couple days to update our systems,” CMS spokesman Aaron Albright said in an email to The Hill. An estimate for how many providers would face the cuts was not available.
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