The bill, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, largely deals with the delay of a reimbursement cuts to physicians under Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula. The bill shields physicians from a 24 percent reimbursement cut scheduled to take effect April 1, 2014 until at least the end of March 2015, and is the 17th short-term legislative solution to avoiding SGR cuts Congress has passed since 2003.
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