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Hill Plan Would Reward Medicare Doctors For Quality
Now comes the hard part. After negotiating for months over how to overhaul Medicare’s troubled payment system for physicians, the bipartisan leadership of three Senate and House committees has reached a deal on the policy. Their next task could be even harder – finding a way to finance repeal of the “doc fix,” the shorthand for the 1997 formula used to set physician payments, the sustainable growth rate (SGR). Read more…
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