Moving Forward From the Sustainable Growth Rate System
October 6, 2011 The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission issued this powerpoint presentation which offers insights to Congress to how the sustainable growth rate (SGR) system should be handled in the future with a set of principles used as recommendations to sperate itself from the system. The principles are to protect beneficiary access to care, offer fiscally responsible policy to replace the SGR system, and sever the formulaic link between annual updates and cumulative expenditures for fee-schedule services. Download the Report . . .
