For years, Congress has temporarily bypassed the SGR so physicians wouldn’t have to endure double-digit reimbursement reductions. However, policymakers face growing pressure to repeal and replace the ...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee has released an updated draft of legislation that would repeal and replace the sustainable growth rate formula used to calculate Medicare reimbursements, a ...

Today, U.S. Reps. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) and Joe Heck, DO, (R-Nev.), released the Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2012 — a bill that would permanently repeal the sustainable growth rate ...

One area in which Congress has acted in a bipartisan manner is in crafting a permanent solution to the "doc fix," the sustainable growth rate formula. The latest - a bill to repeal and replace the SGR ...

The American Gastroenterological Association recently signed a petition created by the Texas Medical Association, which calls on Congress to develop a “rational Medicare physician payment system,” ...

The sustainable growth rate measures the approximate speed with which a company could grow using internally generated cash without issuing additional debt or equity. The rate is calculated by ...

Hopes for Senate passage of a health care reform bill were further dented this week when the Democratic leadership’s proposal for eliminating the Medicare physician fee reductions required by the ...