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Sustainable Growth Rate Fix:

Look For A Reprieve In Payment Cuts, For Now

Published on Tue Jan 21, 2014

Formula driven cuts avoided with interim Conversion Factor of $35.8228 At least for the first three months of 2014, the Medicare physician conversion factor will increase along with your Medicare payments. The skinny: President Obama signed the Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013, which prevented a scheduled 20.1% cut in physician pay due to the sustainable growth rate (SGR) [...]
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