As physicians lobby Congress to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate without paying for the fix , the think tank Center for a Responsible Federal Budget published Wednesday (Nov. 19) a plan to pay for Medicare physician-pay reform using policies that generate half of the savings from providers and half from beneficiaries -- beneficiary policy changes would reduce out-of-pocket costs, the report states. The plan combines a package of SGR replacement and so-called Medicare “extenders” with a tax-reform plan for dealing...