• Pain physician · Mar 2015

    Review

    Elusive "Doc Fix": Groundhog Day 2015 for sustainable growth rate (SGR).

    • Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Frank J E Falco, Vijay Singh, and Joshua A Hirsch.
    • Pain Management Center of Paducah, Paducah, KY, and University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; Mid Atlantic Spine & Pain Physicians, Newark, DE, and Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; Spine Pain Diagnostics Associates, Niagara, WI; and Massachus.
    • Pain Physician. 2015 Mar 1;18(2):E101-5.

    AbstractIn summary, the SGR continues to hang like Damocles sword over physicians. To understand health care needs, we need to separate basic health care needs from economic mandates, and health insurance from health care coverage. The SGR flux represents another meaningful uncertainty to this health care conundrum.

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