W&M SGR Manager's Amendment To Hike Pay 0.5% In Response To Surgeons

W&M SGR Manager's Amendment To Hike Pay 0.5% In Response To Surgeons-insidehealthpolicy: Responding to demands of surgeons, House Ways & Means Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) is going to include a 0.5 percent pay increase, each year, for three years, in the manager's amendment for Medicare physician pay reform that his committee is marking up Thursday (Dec. 12), according to several sources following the legislation. The pay hike was the top demand from surgeons who surprised lawmakers on Tuesday (Dec. 10) by opposing SGR legislation by the W&M and Senate Finance committees in favor of the bill passed by the House Energy & Commerce, which includes the pay increase. The surgeons on Wednesday withdrew their opposition in light of the base-pay hike, according to a letter obtained by Inside Health Policy.