This week, physicians dodged the federales’ fiscal bullet yet again. The sustainable growth rate automatic 10% hit to the Medicare physician fee schedule was transformed into a .5% increase, though this is good for 6 months only. The HealthBlawger is quoted in the this week’s Part B Insider cover story on the latest SGR override.
Here’s hoping our men and women in Washington can tear themselves away from election-year fun and games long enough to hash out a plan to replace the SGR. Some of them profess to want to do so — and putting it off any longer is just plain unhealthy.
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Study says Massachusetts medical malpractice insurance premiums aren’t as bad as we think
Marc Rodwin, in his Health Affairs piece on Massachusetts malpractice premiums out this week, says the supposed malpractice crisis just isn’t there. Inflation-adjusted premiums are about where they were 30 years ago; they’ve gone up — and down, in cycles