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Permanent Solution to Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)?
Medicare's sustainable growth rate, or SGR formula has threatened cuts to physicians payments every year since 2003. Congress has stepped in each time to prevent those cuts from occurring. Physicians face a 21.2% cut at the of February unless Congress intervenes again. Next week, the Senate is expected to vote on a debt-ceiling bill that could possibly contain a permanent fix to the SGR. In the House, similar legislation to revamp the SGR passed last November.