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sustainable growth rate (SGR)
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Former CMS chiefs want SGR repeal
Four former administrators of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week all agreed that the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for physicians is completely broken and needs to be replaced, reported Kaiser Health News .
Providers praise proposed SGR repeal, fee-for-service phase out
A proposed House bill would permanently repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, preventing a 30 percent Medicare pay cut in 2013, and would phase out fee-for-service payments. The Medicare
Obama signs Medicare doc fix
Providers can breathe a sigh of relief (at least temporarily), as President Obama on Wednesday signed legislation ( H.R. 3630 ) that includes a 10-month doc fix, averting a 27.4 percent reduction in
Doc groups call for SGR repeal, financial incentives
While the industry waits to see if Congress will postpone the 27.4 percent cut to physician Medicare reimbursement scheduled for Jan. 1, physician groups are throwing their weight behind efforts to
Obama signs one-year 'doc fix' bill
President Obama finally signed the one-year "doc fix" bill passed by Congress last week into law last night, thus putting on hold a 25 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements for doctors that would
AMA happy about doc-fix deal
American Medical Association president Cecil B. Wilson expressed his pleasure with the congressional passage of a one-year postponement of the 25 percent cut to Medicare pay for doctors that was
One-month Medicare patch: Too little, too late for some practices
Just in time, Congress agreed to a one-month delay to the 23 percent cut to physicians' Medicare reimbursement scheduled to go into effect today. Of course, doctors will face a payment cut of almost
Thank you, doctors, for all that you do
Over the past week at my house, I've watched Lucy pull that football away from Charlie Brown approximately 89,241 times. During the six months I've been writing FiercePracticeManagement and prior six
Another one-month 'doc-fix' patch is likely
Despite hard lobbying by the American Medical Association for Congress to pass a 13-month patch to the Sustainable Growth Rate formula--which would prevent doctors from seeing a 23 percent cut in
Clock ticking louder on doc fix--again
Today, Nov. 17, is White Coat Wednesday, and the American Medical Association wants every physician, medical employee and patient to call its toll-free hotline--1.800.833.6354--every day until Nov.
