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Permanent ‘doc fix’ unlikely this year
Lawmakers have all but given up on efforts to permanently replace the Medicare physician payment formula this year and have refocused their effort on getting it done in 2014. Both the Senate Finance and the House Ways and Means committees are expected to vote next week on a proposal that would permanently repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate and establish a new formula for paying doctors and hospitals that treat Medicare patients. It’s a rare bipartisan, bicameral approach that would forever eliminate the need for the universally hated annual “doc fix.”…Read More
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