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Providers cheer proposal to phase out SGR
A proposed House bill would permanently repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, preventing a 30 percent Medicare pay cut in 2013.
MedPAC urges SGR repeal, pay cut for hospital doc visits
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has recommended the scrapping of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, revising some specific payments for physicians in the hospital setting
Physicians unsettled by temporary doc fix
In case you missed it, Congress approved a doc-fix measure last Friday that will avert the scheduled 27.4 percent Medicare cut to physicians, but only until the end of the year. With the relief once
Congress reaches doc fix deal; hospitals jeer cuts
Congress approved a deal this morning, averting the proposed 27.4 percent Medicare cut to physicians for 10 months, but hospitals are booing the funding cuts to hospital services that are intended to
Sustainable growth rate at a stalemate
Just weeks before the 27 percent cut to Medicare physician payments is scheduled to take effect, House and Senate negotiators remain deadlocked over how to resolve the sustainable growth rate (SGR)
Medicare opt-out data still elusive
Despite anecdotal reports that increasing numbers of physicians are dropping out of the Medicare program, the Office of Inspector General has been unable to fulfill its goal of getting at the real
Doc groups push SGR repeal to be funded by war savings
Congress should use money allocated for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), a budget line no longer needed for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, to help fund a permanent fix to the sustainable growth
Private practices leak 15% of profits
For the 50 percent of U.S. physicians currently running private practices, making payroll each month, let alone keeping their doors open, has become a widespread struggle. As a recent column from
Providers blast Congress for leaving SGR fix in limbo
The House yesterday voted 229 to 193 against Senate-approved legislation that would delay Medicare's scheduled 27 percent physician pay cut for two months as part of a payroll-tax extension. With a
SGR fix stalled in the House
A potential "doc fix" for the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula is now in flux now that lawmakers cannot agree to the contours of a payroll tax extension, reports The Washington Post. A temporary
