One-Year 'Doc Fix' Muddies Physicians' Call For Permanent SGR Repeal

One-Year 'Doc Fix' Muddies Physicians' Call For Permanent SGR Repeal-insidehealthpolicy: Now that Medicare provider pay cuts have been delayed for a year, and lower tax rates are permanent for some 99 percent of Americans, physicians are scrambling to ensure lawmakers remain focused on enacting a permanent repeal of the embattled Sustainable Growth Rate formula, but they face new hurdles. The decision by Congress and the White House to tackle fiscal issues in a piecemeal fashion instead of pursuing a “grand bargain,” which could have masked the near $250 billion cost of a permanent SGR repeal, may make it more difficult for physicians to push for a permanent SGR replacement, sources say.