Medicare Physician Payment: How to Build a Payment System that Provides Quality, Efficient Care for Medicare Beneficiaries : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, July 25 and July 27, 2006, Volume 4 |
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... sustainable growth rate , the SGR , altogether would even be more expensive . Dr. McClellan of CMS previously testified such a proposal could amount to approximately $ 180 billion over 10 years , and CBO placed the cost around $ 218 ...
... sustainable growth rate , the SGR , altogether would even be more expensive . Dr. McClellan of CMS previously testified such a proposal could amount to approximately $ 180 billion over 10 years , and CBO placed the cost around $ 218 ...
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... sustainable growth rate , the SGR payment formula , and replace it with the Medicare Economic Index , the MEI . And two , we should update the Medicare geographic payment locality . I think we are fully cognizant that serious reforms to ...
... sustainable growth rate , the SGR payment formula , and replace it with the Medicare Economic Index , the MEI . And two , we should update the Medicare geographic payment locality . I think we are fully cognizant that serious reforms to ...
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... sustainable growth rate ( SGR ) payment formula and replace it with the Medicare Economic Index ( MEI ) , and 2. update the Medicare Geographic Payment Locality . I think we're fully cognizant that serious reforms to the SGR are ...
... sustainable growth rate ( SGR ) payment formula and replace it with the Medicare Economic Index ( MEI ) , and 2. update the Medicare Geographic Payment Locality . I think we're fully cognizant that serious reforms to the SGR are ...
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... cost of providing Medicare services doubled relative to that which I was being reimbursed . I appreciate the ... sustainable growth rate , as well as the Medicare economic index , and an adjustment to bring the MEI update in line ...
... cost of providing Medicare services doubled relative to that which I was being reimbursed . I appreciate the ... sustainable growth rate , as well as the Medicare economic index , and an adjustment to bring the MEI update in line ...
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... sustainable growth rate system to set a spending target for Medicare expenditures . Despite the complicated formulas used to derive the SGR , the physician fee schedule , the idea behind the formula is fairly simple . If Medicare ...
... sustainable growth rate system to set a spending target for Medicare expenditures . Despite the complicated formulas used to derive the SGR , the physician fee schedule , the idea behind the formula is fairly simple . If Medicare ...
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