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Say Goodbye to SGR Once and For All

Published on Tue May 05, 2015

Keep focus on ICD-10, too.
You’ve waited with bated breath for the last time to see if your Medicare pay would suddenly crash and burn with the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula. After 17 Congressional payment “patches” since 2002 to halt the payment nosedive (such as the 21 percent cut slated for April 1), Congress finally acted to eliminate [...]
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