Congress overrides Medicare veto; 'positive move,' physician says (The Vicksburg Post)
Unanimous votes by Mississippi's delegates to Congress nullified President Bush's veto of a bill that would have cut the reimbursement rates doctors receive when treating Medicare patients by 10.6 percent and were received favorably by a Vicksburg physician who had talked with Bush about the matter.

Medicare Quality Reporting Initiative Pays Over $36 Million To Participating Physicians From The 2007 PQRI Reporting ... (Medical News Today)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) announced payment of more than $36 million in bonus payments to many of the more than 56,700 health professionals who satisfactorily reported quality information to Medicare under the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). "Creating a value-based purchasing system is a critical way to improve our health care systems.