By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefLast week's failure of the Congressional "super committee" to come up with a compromise to trim $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit over the next decade and find enough money to head off a 27.5% reduction in Medicare provider fees on Jan. 1 could have a major impact on the state's workers' compensation fee schedules, stakeholders said last week.But the experts agreed that Congress probably will come through with another temporary, one-year fix for the impending reduction in Medicare doctors' payments. If not addressed, the Medicare sy...
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