Join, Follow & Connect
Join Modern Healthcare's LinkedIn group Follow Modern Healthcare on Twitter Join Modern Healthcare's Facebook group Follow Modern Healthcare's Pinterest board Modern Healthcare's Flickr page Modern Healthcare's YouTube Channel Get a Modern Healthcare news feed
 
Modern Healthcare News
 
RSS feed

Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) news and information

Vital Signs
Latest effort to repeal SGR formula calls for 0.5% pay hike
By Jessica Zigmond | July 19, 2013
Republican and Democratic leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee released the latest version of a draft bill to repeal Medicare's sustainable growth-rate formula calling for a five-year period of stable payment increases as physicians transition into new payment models. But lawmakers...
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

Video
Video Feature: Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven, new AMA president (4:36)
By Modern Healthcare | June 21, 2013
Modern Healthcare physician affairs reporter Andis Robeznieks interviews the new president of the American Medical Association, Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven. An infectious disease specialist from Lexington, Ky., Hoven talks about the recent meeting of the AMA House of Delegates and the AMA's efforts to...
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

News
Providers at odds over timeline for ending SGR
By Rich Daly | June 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Providers remain split over who should determine quality measures under a replacement Medicare physician payment system and how quickly to move away from the current reimbursement model, according to industry groups.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

Modern Physician
Policy, public health take center stage at AMA delegates meeting
By Andis Robeznieks | June 21, 2013
The American Medical Association House of Delegates' annual meeting had a particular focus on public policy and public health as it recalibrated its position on supporting the Patient Protection and Affordable Act and looked at strategies to defend against common threats to their patients' health.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

News
House Republicans focused on SGR fix
By Jessica Zigmond | June 04, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
With a House panel preparing to discuss physician payment reforms today, healthcare providers and industry groups remain hopeful that 2013 will be the year lawmakers repeal the SGR.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 


Advertisement | View Media Kit

News
Panel airs draft of new doc payment system
By Jessica Zigmond | May 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Republican House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have revealed a draft of a bill that would repeal Medicare's contentious physician payment formula and replace it with a payment system that places greater emphasis on quality and efficiency.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

Magazine
SGR hopes face tough realities | $139 billion, new payment formula still needed
By Rich Daly | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Legislators on both sides of the aisle and on both sides of Capitol Hill are touting their early start on overhauling the Medicare physician payment system. However, those claims of progress will soon run into hard realities: No one has yet come up with a concrete plan to address the biggest...
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

Modern Physician
It's time 'to break cycle' on SGR: Baucus
By Rich Daly and Jonathan Block | May 14, 2013
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus opened the panel's first hearing in six years on Medicare physician pay with assertive rhetoric about scrapping the hated sustainable growth-rate formula this year. .
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

News
Doc pay reform remains a 'top priority'
By Rich Daly | May 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Physician advocates see signs of progress in the Senate Finance Committee's hearing Tuesday—the panel's first in six years on replacing Medicare's physician payment system.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment 1
 

Modern Physician
Consensus builds for 5-year SGR transition period
By Rich Daly | May 08, 2013
Providers are coalescing around a five-year transition period before moving to a new Medicare physician payment system, according to a House Republican involved in developing the replacement.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

Search ModernHealthcare.com:



Daily Dose MH Alert MH AM HITS Modern Physician Most Requested

LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr News Feeds Google Plus Page - Publisher

 

Switch to the new Modern Healthcare Daily News app

For the best experience of ModernHealthcare.com on your iPad, switch to the new Modern Healthcare app — it's optimized for your device but there is no need to download.