Home / Posts tagged 'SGR/doc fix' (Page 3)
Post Tagged with: "SGR/doc fix"
-
Another Short-Term Patch for the Troublesome SGR
Congress voted today to extend payroll tax cuts, unemployment benfits and the current Medicare physician payment through the end of 2012. The bill now goes to President Obama for his signature, as members of Congress prepare for a week-long recess to observe the President’s Day holiday.
continue reading → -
Senator Burr Co-Sponsors Medicare Reform Proposal
On Thursday, Senator Richard Burr (R, NC) and Senator Tom Coburn, MD, (R, OK) unveiled the Seniors’ Choice Act, a legislative proposal to create a more sustainable Medicare program through immediate and long-term reforms. The Act blends many of the short term Medicare reforms proposed by Senators Coburn and Lieberman (I, CT) with the longer-term reforms based on ideas proposed by Alice Rivlin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, and former Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM), as well as the bipartisan Medicare Commission, according to a news release from Senator Burr’s office.
continue reading → -
YouTube Videos Call for Permanent SGR Fix, Not More Patches
Videos posted on YouTube are helping to emphasize the urgency to repeal Medicare’s flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula that is used to set physician reimbursements. The AMA released the […]
continue reading → -
Physician Organizations Propose Offset for Congress to Repeal SGR
The NCMS joined with 47 physician organizations this week to ask Congress to repeal Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula by using excesses from Overseas Contingency Operations (no longer needed for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan).
continue reading → -
Medicare Physician Reimbursement Cut Still Looms
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently developing the 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) to implement the zero percent update that was included in the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Act signed by President Obama on December 23, 2011.
continue reading → -
Updates in Health Care News
US Supreme Court Schedules PPACA Oral Arguments for March The US Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear arguments on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act March 26-28, […]
continue reading → -
Congress Expected to Vote Today on Spending Measure that Includes Medicare Physician Reimbursement
The US House and Senate are expected to vote today on a $1 trillion interim spending package that was crafted last night by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
continue reading → -
Vote Expected To Extend Medicare Physician Pay Rates; Survey Seeks Physician Input
The US House is expected to vote December 13 on legislation that will include a two-year extension of the current Medicare physician pay rates, including a one percent increase.
continue reading → -
Medicare Physician Payment Cut Still in Place for January 1
Congressional leaders from both parties have publicly stated that they are committed to take action before the end of year to avert the scheduled 27 percent cut in Medicare physician payments.
continue reading → -
Doctors Urged to Act Now in Campaign to Repeal the SGR
The NCMS, AMA, and other physician organizations are urging their members to contact every member of Congress and ask them to repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula used to set Medicare physician reimbursement rates.
continue reading →