HCR Update from Mark Sanna: Yesterday Congress passed, and the President is expected to sign, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (H.R. 4302) which avoids for 12 months the 24% cut to Medicare that would have taken effect April 1. This short-term fix, while not addressing the longer-term issues, maintains the current Medicare reimbursement rate through 3/31/15.  The legislation also pushes the implementation of ICD-10 for at least one year from 10/1/14 to 10/1/15.