Leaders from TMA and the medical associations from California, Florida, and New York stormed Capitol Hill with our plan to take the regulatory burden off physicians’ practices.
The Coalition of State Medical Societies’ priorities included calls for Congress to:
- Eliminate federal mandates, like the poorly named “meaningful use” program, that compel physicians to do unnecessary make-work and wade through convoluted reporting systems;
- Stop the bounty-hunting Medicare Recovery Audit Program contractors (RACs);
- Maintain the state-based system of licensing physicians;
- Be prepared to act quickly to protect physicians’ practices from financial problems caused by the new ICD-10 coding system;
- Clarify that maintenance of certification is not and never will be a nationwide condition for physicians to receive or keep a state license or to participate in Medicare or Medicaid;
- Allow physicians and patients on Medicare to contract for services directly; and
- Bolster funding for graduate medical education.
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April 2015: The Battle to Eliminate the Sustainable Growth Rate Formula is Finally Over!
- Huge Victory for Medicine: No More SGR!
Shout it from the rooftops: Success (finally)! Last night, medicine achieved the biggest victory since the passage of Texas' 2003 tort reform liability protections. Just hours before a 21-percent pay cut to physicians was set to take effect, the Senate approved the bill to repeal Medicare's fatally flawed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, permanently and immediately.
- Repeal the SGR; Repeal Harmful and Onerous Federal Regulations - Administrative costs in the U.S. private and public health care system are more than $361 billion annually — 14 percent of all health care expenditures. Private insurers and Medicare require physicians and their patients to follow too many complex and redundant rules. Physicians employ more billing and posting clerks than any other industry. The huge numbers of regulations, coupled with the ongoing uncertainty in physician Medicare payments, are forcing more doctors out of the program. With the baby boomers coming of Medicare age, we need more physicians available to provide care, not fewer.
- Physicians under Siege
- We're Giving Our Veterans Unacceptable Care
Last Updated On
July 10, 2018
Originally Published On
July 26, 2011