House Passes One-Year SGR Patch; Senate to Consider SGR Legislation on Monday

The House of Representatives earlier this week passed a one-year extension of a fix to the flawed Medicare physician payment formula known as the  “Sustainable Growth Rate” (SGR) by voice vote. The measure that passed not only provides a temporary fix or “patch” to the SGR but also delays ICD-10 implementation until October 2015. This is the 16th such “doc fix” patch since the SGR formula was…