AMA President J. James Rohack, MD, has posted a guest column on the popular physician blog KevinMD.com (http://www.kevinmd.com/) about the need for permanent repeal of the broken Medicare physician payment formula (sustainable growth rate or SGR). Dr. Rohack makes the case that permanent repeal must be part of health reform this year.
To view Dr. Rohack’s column, please visit KevinMD.com at: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/10/ama-permanent-repeal-medicare-physician-payment-formula-part-health-reform.html
For more information on Medicare physician payment reform, including an action kit that includes fact sheets for individual states, please visit the AMA Web site. (http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/advocacy/current-topics-advocacy/practice-management/medicare-physician-payment-reform-regulatory-relief/federal-legislative-activities-medicare.shtml)
