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President Obama signed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, on Thursday, April 16. The Act repeals the long complained about Sustainable Growth Rate formula for computing Medicare reimbursement rates, which had resulted in the annual “Doc Fix” legislation for the last 17 years. The Act also begins…

The United States House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees and the Senate Finance Committee have released bipartisan compromise legislation that would repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for physician payments and transition Medicare towards a value-based payment system. The legislation “not only fully repeals the broken…