SGR repeal: A marked improvement over the status quo
Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) payment formula has hung like an annual albatross around the necks of physicians, Congress, and medical associations for more than a decade. Finally, we have a realistic opportunity to fling that albatross into the sea.
Three congressional committees — from both the House and the Senate, with both Democratic and Republican support — have crafted the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014, …
SGR repeal: A marked improvement over the status quo
