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Congressional Leaders Offer New Bill To Fix Medicare Doctor Pay
Two key congressional committee leaders -- one from each party -- are offering a new bill to fix the way Medicare pays doctors -- by repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate. The bill would freeze current payment rates until 2023, but would create a new budget-neutral incentive pay program in 2017.
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