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 ...

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 ...

Last week, House and Senate leaders introduced a bipartisan bill that would repeal Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula for physician reimbursements and replace it with a payment system designed ...

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,” ...

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 ...