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Congress Makes Significant Progress on Physician Payment Reform

By Neurosurgery BlogAccess to Care, Health, Medicare, SGRNo Comments

On Feb. 6, 2014, the Senate Finance, House Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Committees released bipartisan legislation to repeal Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) physician payment system. The “SGR…

February 20, 2014

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Efforts to Fix the SGR Continue

By Neurosurgery BlogAccess to Care, Coding and Reimbursement, Congress, Health, Health Reform, Medicare, SGRNo Comments

Year after year, because of Medicare’s flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, physicians face significant cuts in Medicare reimbursement. And time and time again, Congress intervenes with a short term…

May 9, 2013

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