The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has approved a replacement to the 15-year-old sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment formula for physicians, although pushback is already occurring among specialists and other clinicians, reports MedPage Today. The SGR would be replaced by a decade-long payment freeze to primary care physicians, along with a 5.9 percent annual payment cut to specialists for three consecutive years, followed by seven years of frozen payments. --Read the full article from FierceHealthFinance