The measure would exempt the cost of repealing for five years the sustainable growth rate (SGR), which mandates the fee cuts, and would transition physicians to a new payment system similar to what the House passed last fall.
Senate Democrats, who passed the measure on a party-line vote, plan to attach it to a bill to extend unemployment insurance, which expires next month.
Read the American Gastroenterological Association’s release on sustainable growth rate.
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