title: R.I.P. SGR.
abstract: Medicine's united voice was instrumental in successfully repealing the flawed Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula--a payment design enacted in 1997 to sustain Medicare with lower costs but that instead threatened physicians with unsustainable payment cuts every year since 2003. Doctors say the elimination of SGR frees medicine to advocate for other lingering issues affecting Medicare.
authors.forename: Amy Lynn
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Sorrel
mesh_terms: D005245:Fee Schedules; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D010820:Physicians; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000191:economics*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States