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Medicare Physician Payment Updates and the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) System.

Provides background on Medicare fee schedule for physicians and the sustainable growth rate (SGR) system, which generates formula for calculating annual updates in payments for physician services. Discusses recent legislative proposals to rectify SGR problems.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2009.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Medical economics. Medicare. Physicians. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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