Cost Of Fixing SGR Creeps Up Weeks After Congress Fails To Reform Physician Pay

The cost of freezing Medicare physician pay is creeping back up after the price for a permanent “doc-fix” had been falling for more than a year, according to the most recent estimate by the Congressional Budget Office. After a long bipartisan effort, Congress this year failed to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate formula that determines physician pay because the two parties couldn’t agree on how to pay for it. CBO on Monday (April 14) included the new score in its...