Date: Monday, May 31, 2010, 1:22 PMI missed this one earlier.  Looks like Obama, Pelosi and Co., have their road map already.

Martin: Found this on the Ways and Means website. This is only SOME of what’s coming. Take note of the very last two listed.

2010
•Medicare cuts to inpatient psych hospitals (7/1/10)

2011
•Medicare Advantage cuts begin
•Medicare cuts to home health begin
•Medicare reimbursement cuts when seniors use diagnostic imaging like
MRIs, CT scans, etc.
•Medicare cuts begin to ambulance services, ASCs, diagnostic labs, and durable
medical equipment

•Impose new annual tax on brand name pharmaceutical companies
•Americans begin paying premiums for federal long term care insurance
(CLASS Act) (see FOX news story on this in todays headlines)
•Prohibition on Medicare payments to new physician owned hospitals

•Seniors prohibited from purchasing power wheelchairs unless they
first rent for 13 months
•Employers required to report value of health benefits on W2
•New Medicare cuts to long term care hospitals begin (7/1/11)
•Additional Medicare cuts to hospitals and cuts to nursing homes and inpatient
rehab facilities begin (FY12)

•New tax on all private health insurance policies to pay for comp.
eff. research (plan years beginning FY12)

2012
•Medicare cuts to dialysis treatment begins
•Require information reporting on payments to corporations
•New Medicare cuts to inpatient psych hospitals (7/1/12)
•Hospital pay for quality program begins (FY13)
•Medicare cuts to hospitals with high readmission rates begin (FY13)
•Medicare cuts to hospice begin (FY13)

2013
•Impose 2.3% excise tax on medical devices
•Medicare cuts to hospitals who treat low income seniors begin More