Last week the Senate passed legislation [1] to permanently eliminate the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, a mechanism created in 1997 designed to restrict growth in Medicare Part B spending. In practice, the SGR would have severely cut payments to providers paid under Medicare’s Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). Congress regularly has passed legislation temporarily averting those cuts.
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April 20, 2015
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