Senate Returns to an Immediate ‘Doc Fix’ Deadline

Senate Returns to an Immediate ‘Doc Fix’ Deadline-rollcall: Lawmakers will already be facing a time crunch when the Senate returns Monday. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been withholding payments to doctors treating Medicare patients to give Congress a window to work through a long-term resolution to the Sustainable Growth Rate problem that sees physicians regularly facing draconian cuts in payment rates without a patch known as a “doc fix.”