Farewell SGR: Congress Sends SGR Repeal Bill to the President

The United States Senate voted overwhelmingly by a vote of 92-8 to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and chart a new path toward a physician payment system that rewards not for volume, but for value.

The vote ends more than a dozen years of lobbying by the physician community to discard the flawed SGR.

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*Original letter written by Colleen M. Schmitt, MD, MHS, FASGE, President, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy