Tag Archives: SGR

Will Anyone Listen When Former CMS Chiefs Call For More Objective Physician Payment?

Posted on July 7, 2012 by

Brian Klepper Posted 7/7/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost On May 10th, the US Senate Finance Committee, co-chaired by Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), convened a remarkable panel of four former Administrators of the Health Care Finance Administration … Continue reading →

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Better Than Printing Money

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

Paul Levy Posted 12/22/11 on Not Running A Hospital John McDonough, one of the health care experts in Massachusetts, writes on his blog about the three-year renewal of the state’s Medicaid waiver.  John presents a history of the waiver and notes that … Continue reading →

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Who Will Pay For the Doc Pay Fix?

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

Merrill Goozner Published 11/25/11 in the Fiscal Times Holiday cheer and bipartisan bonhomie are still possible on Capitol Hill. For evidence, one need only look at the so-called “doc fix,” where Congress every year overrides a previous effort at health … Continue reading →

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MedPAC’s SGR Solution: Bad Medicine For A Chronic Problem

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

Jeff Goldsmith Posted 11/16/11 on The Health Affairs Blog Copyright ©2011 Health Affairs by Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.  The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is the closest thing Congress has to adult supervision on important health policy … Continue reading →

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The 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule is Finalized

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

David Harlow Posted 11/7/11 on Health Blawg CMS issued the final MPFS — the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2012 – this past week. The key feature of the rule, for many folks, is the Sustainable Growth Rate-(SGR)-mandated 27.4% cut in Medicare professional … Continue reading →

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Quick Medicare Factoids

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

Joe Paduda First posted 9/08/11 on Managed Care Matters There’s going to be a LOT coming out in the next two months about Medicare, so it may help to know a few things about the program to help put it in context. … Continue reading →

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Physician Payment Reform: An Opportunity to Bolster Primary Care

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

James Rickert First posted 9/07/11 on The Health Affairs Blog Copyright ©2011 Health Affairs by Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.  With the Budget Control Act of 2011 now signed into law, health care lobbyists are preparing to fight … Continue reading →

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Still Unresolved: How We Pay Physicians, And The Primary Care Crisis

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

Wednesday’s news that physicians had, yet again, dodged the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) pay cut bullet – if you access the AMA article linked to above, be sure to read to the end to see how this new cost will be … Continue reading →

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