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AMA Backs SGR-Repeal Bill, Offers No Plan on How to Pay for Legislation
The American Medical Association pledged its full support for legislation repealing the Medicare sustainable growth-rate physician payment formula.
The American Medical Association pledged its full support for legislation repealing the Medicare sustainable growth-rate physician payment formula. But for now, at least, the AMA is not making any suggestions on how to cover the bill's estimated $126 billion cost.
“Congress can manage this,” Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven, AMA president, told reporters during a conference call.
She added that the AMA is adamantly opposed to a nine-month suspension of SGR-driven pay cuts that some lawmakers proposed, including in a bill to raise the national debt ceiling. Doctors will receive a 24% Medicare pay cut if Congress doesn't act by March 31.
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Source: Modern Healthcare
Laundromats as a New Frontier in Community Health, Medicaid Outreach
May 29th 2025Lindsey Leininger, PhD, and Allister Chang, MPA, highlight the potential of laundromats as accessible, community-based settings to support Medicaid outreach, foster trust, and connect families with essential health and social services.
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New Research Challenges Assumptions About Hospital-Physician Integration, Medicare Patient Mix
April 22nd 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Brady Post, PhD, lead author of a study published in the April 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, challenges the claim that hospital-employed physicians serve a more complex patient mix.
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