They'll fix this before the end of the month

Implications: If this isn't fixed, it won't be long before cognitive specialties, like internal medicine and neurology, start capping their practices and not allowing new Medicare patients.    

Analysis: If that happens, the seniors and the AARP will raise heck.  I predict that this problem will be solved by the end of the month.  If they don't, the backlog of claims and the need to re-process all those claims next year with the add'l 10% payment will be too expensive to process.