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House committee releases bipartisan Medicare SGR reform bill

Three congressional committees have been hard at work over the past few months on legislation that would eliminate the desperately broken Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula that is used to determine physician payment rates. On Friday, the health subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee's health subcommittee released its bill to repeal the SGR. One Tuesday the bill was approved by the subcommittee and now heads to the full committee for consideration. The House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee have ...