Burwell Lists 2015 Priorities For Administration, Congressional Agreement

HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said at the New America Foundation Thursday (Jan. 15) that she believes Congress and the administration can find bipartisan agreement on the Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula used to pay physicians, signaling an effort to move on to priorities other than the Affordable Care Act. CHIP funding runs out this year, and physicians will see steep Medicare pay cuts if Congress doesn't replace or patch the SGR by April 1. Burwell...