Endocrine Society Opposes MedPAC's Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) Recommendations
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
The Endocrine Society, representing more than 14,000 physicians and scientists in the field of endocrinology, strongly opposes the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) recommendation to reduce payments for specialists by 17.7 percent to partially fund the elimination of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. The Society believes that this recommendation will unfairly punish endocrinologists, and other cognitive specialists, who largely bill evaluation and management services and often serve as the primary care provider to patients with chronic and complex diseases.