DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 6 (June)

House bill would replace SGR, eliminate 21% pay cut

You wouldn't see the 21% cut to your Medicare payments set to take effect Jan. 1 under a House of Representatives health care reform bill that eliminates the "flawed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula." The bill, released June 9, came out of the House Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce and Education and Labor committees, who promised to pass major health care reform by August. The Tri-Committee Health Reform proposal would replace the SGR formula used to calculate Medicare payments.

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