The ASA urged that the SGR be replaced with a new payment model that accounts for anesthesia’s unique payment disparity. ASA further advocated tying payment fixes to the immediate repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a board created under the federal healthcare reform law and granted the power to mandate Medicare payment cuts.
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