title: Elusive "Doc Fix": Groundhog Day 2015 for sustainable growth rate (SGR).
abstract: In summary, the SGR continues to hang like Damocles sword over physicians. To understand health care needs, we need to separate basic health care needs from economic mandates, and health insurance from health care coverage. The SGR flux represents another meaningful uncertainty to this health care conundrum.
authors: Pain Management Center of Paducah, Paducah, KY, and University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; Mid Atlantic Spine & Pain Physicians, Newark, DE, and Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; Spine Pain Diagnostics Associates, Niagara, WI; and Massachus.
authors: Laxmaiah
authors: L
authors: Manchikanti
authors: Frank J E
authors: FJ
authors: Falco
authors: Vijay
authors: V
authors: Singh
authors: Joshua A
authors: JA
authors: Hirsch
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D010820:Physicians / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D012621:Seasons; D014481:United States