tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 18

Drug Reimbursement: Physicians Face Seven Lean Years Starting 2006

Can Congress agree on a way to avert $90 billion in cuts?Congress built this house, now doctors may have to live in it. That's the message two watchdog agencies gave in congressional testimony recently. In a May 5 hearing of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, both the Congressional Budget Office and the General Accounting Office warned that fixing physician payments wouldn't come cheap. Congress set up the Sustainable Growth Rate formula to keep docs' reimbursement under control, and now legislators may have to live with the consequences. CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin warned that the aging of...

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