House GOP Drafts Bill to Fix SGR

House Republicans unveiled a draft of a bill intended to replace Medicare’s sustainable growth rate permanently and end the annual game of political hot potato in which lawmakers bargain to overwrite it and avoid cutting physician pay.

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The proposal, released by GOP members of the Energy and Commerce Committee, would allow physicians to move into a value-based payment model gradually, but the document doesn’t specify how it would pick up the 10-year, $140 billion cost of replacing the SGR.

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