CBO's Estimated Cost Of Freezing Medicare Physician Pay Falls Slightly

The Congressional Budget Office lowered by $5 billion its 10-year estimate of the cost of freezing Medicare payments to physicians, which is good news for those pushing to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate formula. However, physicians are lobbying to replace SGR without paying for it, and some Republicans reportedly are warming to the idea. When CBO last scored the cost of freezing Medicare physician pay , the estimate had crept up after more than a year of falling. Some physician...