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- The Supreme Court’s Decision and its Impact on Health Care Reform
- Huge subsidy funding discrepancy in President’s budget proposal
- Congress fails once again to fix the SGR formula
- Defensive medicine among orthopedic surgeons costs US $2 billion
- Catholic bishops call HHS new rule “literally unconscionable”
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Congress fails once again to fix the SGR formula
Once again, Congress missed an opportunity to resolve its annual dilemma wrangling over how to correct the continuing problem of the Medicare reimbursement cliff for physicians created by the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula. Almost since Congress first pursued legislation … Continue reading
Defensive medicine among orthopedic surgeons costs US $2 billion
In an article published in the February issue of the American Journal of Orthopedics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers estimate that U.S. orthopedic surgeons create approximately $2 billion per year in unnecessary health care costs associated with orthopedic care due … Continue reading