Leap of Faith — Medicare's New Physician Payment System  

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Oberlander, Jonathan ; Laugesen, Miriam J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 373 no. 13 (Sep. 2015), page 1185-1187.

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Repealing Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula (SGR) for calculating annual updates to physician payments has long been a priority for organized medicine. The annual “mandatory” fee cuts it dictated (that were then averted by last-minute congressional action) earned the SGR few fans in the medical profession. Many health policy analysts also saw the formula as deeply flawed, unfair, and ineffective. Yet it survived, largely because official budget projections continued to assume that steep cuts would actually be made to Medicare's physician payments over the ensuing decade. Democrats and Republicans alike found it difficult to surrender these imaginary savings. Though most health policymakers wanted to eliminate the SGR, it seemed impossible to find a way out of the budgetary trap.

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