Kathy Castor & Tampa health officials celebrate signing of “Doc Fix” Medicare bill
President Obama is scheduled to host congressional leaders of both parties at the White House later this afternoon to cheer on a recently passed bill that makes reforms to Medicare. The bill eliminated Congress’s two-decade old Medicare payment problems known as the “doc fix,” and has been hailed as a rare form of bipartisanship in Washington. “If this bill had not gone forth, we were looking at a 21 percent cut in Medicare funding for physicians,” said Dr. Bradley Fouraker,…