Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) news and information

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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. .
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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.
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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.
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U.S. House of Representatives committee chairmen asked for guidance on replacing the sustainable growth-rate Medicare physician payment formula, and healthcare associations were happy to comply. The responses reflected the concerns of each responding association's constituency—particularly...
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The lead author of the 2010 healthcare overhaul confirmed Tuesday that he will not seek re-election when his term expires next year.
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