House to wade into doc pay issue, but next steps are unclear.(Medicare Physician Payment)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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House health leaders apparently intend to develop a long-term fix for Medicare's troubled sustainable growth rate formula for physician payment. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Nancy Johnson (R-CT) said Feb. 10 that she's in favor of moving toward some kind of pay-for-performance system, and is calling for physicians to come up with quality indicators that could form the basis of such a mechanism. She and other lawmakers are voicing significant...

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