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Shutdown dims hope of doc-pay fix, MGMA attendees told


If Congress manages to get the government restarted and avert the debt ceiling crisis, lawmakers may have just enough time to renew their 10-year tradition of "kicking the can" on finding a replacement for the Medicare sustainable growth-rate payment formula.

During a "Washington Update" session, Jeb Shepard and Jennifer Gasperini of the Medical Group Management Association's government affairs staff told attendees at the association's annual conference in San Diego how legislative and regulatory action and inaction may affect the medical practices they run.
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BLS federal jobs data for September casualty of shutdown


The federal government's jobs report last month left many eager to find out if the next report would again show weak gains or even losses in hospital employment in spite of durable growth in the healthcare sector at large.

But anyone who keeps close tabs on healthcare employment woke up this morning—the first Friday of October—without the monthly fix of federal jobs data thanks to the government shutdown in Washington.
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Mobile Doctors defendants make first court appearance

2:15 pm, Aug. 28 |

U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland asked the defendant how he was doing today.

“I've had better days, your honor,” replied Dike Ajiri, CEO of Mobile Doctors, a Chicago-based firm providing home health services in six states.
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Delay in overtime, minimum-wage regs frustrating home-care workers


Home-care workers are growing inpatient with the White House's delay in publishing a regulation that would bring them overtime pay and the federal minimum wage.
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