Tag: physician-payment
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Bipartisan group offers budget plan with $560 billion in health care savings
The Bipartisan Policy Center released a new fiscal blueprint on Thursday that includes — among its 40 recommendations — significant trims to Medicare and changes that would scrap the current Medicare physician payment formula while also improving the program’s coordination of care.
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House GOP SGR replacement would ease Medicare’s doctor pay into a pay-for-performance model
Under its new proposal to replace the Medicare physician payment formula, the House GOP plan would provide physicians with a stable, pre-set fee schedule to allow an eventual transition to alternate payment models.