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Ron Johnson: “Cms, the governing authority Medicare didn't even wait for…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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The Star Interview: Ron Johnson 10-17-2016 (2 of 2)

Published | Video Starts at 13:49

Because that's the whole point the survey is used to reflect to affect the reimbursement of these providers. So by doing that we've now removed and by the way it was such an important piece of legislation. Cms, the governing authority Medicare didn't even wait for it to pass...implementing that right now in regulation. pass. We put pressure on them and I'm chairman of the oversight committee of the Senate so we got capability of putting pressure on these agencies. (13:49–14:03)

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Asserts that CMS began implementing regulations from the PROP Act before it passed.

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