The AMA and others in organized medicine are speaking out against the recommendations.
Washington -- A commission advising Congress on Medicare payment issues recommended pay cuts to specialiists and a 10-year freeze to primary care physicians in a package to overhaul the Medicare fee-for-service system.
The recommendations by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on Oct. 6 offer Congress a way to eliminate the sustainable growth rate formula used to set Medicare payments. Physician organizations, and a few MedPAC members, while supporting the elimination of SGR, were critical of the plan.
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Tue, October 18, 2011
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