Senate Finance Staff Implore Doc Lobbyists To Get GOP To Support Wyden SGR Bill

Senate Finance Staff Implore Doc Lobbyists To Get GOP To Support Wyden SGR Bill-insidehealthpolicy: Senate Finance Committee staff held a meeting with several physician groups Thursday and urged them to get five GOP senators -- enough to achieve a filibuster-proof majority -- to support Chair Ron Wyden's (D-OR) bill to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate formula without paying for it, several lobbyists said. As of Friday lobbyists had not gotten any GOP senators to commit, a physician lobbyist said.