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Is Repeal of the SGR Finally Possible This Year?
See what the NCMS and other societies are doing to push for repeal.
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Is This Finally the Year To Repeal the SGR?
Once again it’s time to attempt to push Congress to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula. Few legislative days remain before the current Medicare physician payment patch expires on […]
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Will The SGR Be Repealed in 2015? Stay Tuned…
Last year, the 113th Congress came closer than any previous Congress to repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate and presenting viable payment reforms. After a year of work, the relevant congressional […]
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The 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: What the New Year Holds
Download this NCMS summary of what the fee schedule contains and how it may affect you.
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CMS Proposes Updated 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Among Other Changes
Read on to see how these changes may affect you.
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SGR Patch and ICD-10 Delay Pass Congress
On Monday, the US Senate followed the House’s earlier approval of a bill that stopped a 24-percent cut to Medicare physician payments from going into effect on April 1, and […]
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SGR Repeal Faces New Hurdles
Before this week’s planned Congressional recess, there were some new developments in the US House and Senate with respect to the SGR repeal legislation. In the House, Ways and Means Chairman […]
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Final Push for SGR Repeal Underway Now in Washington, D.C.
The AMA and state medical societies like the North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) are making a final concerted effort to sway their US Congressional Representatives to adopt the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014.
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NCMS and Other Health Care Organizations Rally to Repeal the SGR
Long-awaited and hard-fought legislation to permanently repeal the fatally flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula now is before both chambers of Congress with the introduction of the SGR Repeal and […]
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Congress Passes Budget Deal Including Patch to SGR
On Wednesday, Congress approved a budget agreement that extends Medicare’s current physician payment update of 0.5 percent through the end of March, averting a 23.7 percent payment cut to doctors that was scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2014.
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