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Back Research and Publications. Back Member Center. It remains to be seen whether the offset issue will stall the advance of the legislation. However, with the CBO projecting that the cost of a fix is comparatively lower relative to previous estimates, bipartisan support for repeal, stakeholder advocacy, and coordinated, bicameral movement on versions of the legislation, it appears that SGR reform has a better opportunity than in previous years to actually get done.
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So while the formula has not operated as it was designed since it has placed significant limits on increases in reimbursement for physician services. Figure 1. Instead, we must transition to payment models that involve greater accountability for providers for the quality and cost of the care they deliver. A more effective payment system would recognize that physician decisions have significant impacts on overall health care costs, and better support physicians to make improvements in the delivery of care.
In addition, many services that physicians provide — from responding to emails, to helping patients develop care plans— are not supported by the current fee-for-service payment system. Though it could be improved, this legislation is a good start. For more information on the implementation of alternative payment models, read our Medicare reform health policy brief.
This is a huge challenge. And unfortunately there has been virtually no discussion of how to pay for it. Elsewhere, we wrote about how to pay for a permanent SGR fix , and suggested that if such a discussion proves to be too challenging, then Congress should consider a semi-permanent fix in the three to five year range.
It is critical that physicians have a period of stability and incentives to invest in the management tools that will help them move away from the current, inefficient, fee for service models. With a new Congress it remains to be seen how this will proceed. Because there is little time before then to develop consensus around the legislation and how to pay for it, the odds again favor some sort of further short term extension.
But this could be done in a way that facilitates a permanent or semi-permanent fix soon, perhaps in this Congress. If Congress, adopts a new budget and moves to implement it, it is quite possible SGR will be included as one of those items. That process, however, can take several months to unfold. What is the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate?
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