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Medicare Physician Payment Updates and the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) System.
ProQuest Congressional Research Digital Collection: Part C (2011 forward) Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical economics.
- Medicare.
- Physicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (22 pages, digital, PDF file)
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2011.
- System Details:
- System requirements: PDF reader software.
- text file
- Summary:
- Provides background on Medicare fee schedule for physicians and the sustainable growth rate (SGR) system, which generates formula for calculating annual updates in payments for physician services. Discusses recent proposed and enacted legislation to rectify SGR problems, and reviews Medicare Payment Advisory Commission draft proposal for addressing SGR and Medicare physician payments.
- Notes:
- Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Jan. 2013). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
- CRS Report.
- Other Format:
- Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Medicare Physician Payment Updates and the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) System
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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