Congress is on its way to extending the stop-gap funding bills into March (and may have already done so by the time you read this). Absent from the legislation to continue funding the federal ...

Editor's note: The spending package referenced in this story was passed in the House on the evening of March 11. Updated March 11, 11:00 a.m. The House rules committee advanced Johnson’s continuing ...

Here we go again! For the second year in a row, we enter the new year without Congress enacting a doc fix or Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) bonus extension. While Congress did act last year ...

Update: Here is the Democrat denial on this memo, and the Politico withdrawal notice. Let’s hope someone wasn’t freelancing fake memos around the Hill. Or worse, had some direction to do so. It would ...

One area in which Congress has acted in a bipartisan manner is in crafting a permanent solution to the "doc fix," the sustainable growth rate formula. The latest - a bill to repeal and replace the SGR ...

The No. 2 House Democrat says bipartisan momentum is building in Congress to permanently fix a flaw in a federal payment system that annually threatens cuts to doctors who treat Medicare patients.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate are warming up to legislation that would permanently replace the flawed sustainable growth rate formula and extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program for two years, ...

Physician organizations were mostly thrilled when Congress passed the “doc fix” legislation in April, replacing the despised Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate with the Merit-based Incentive Payment ...

House Republicans have proposed a payroll tax bill that, among several items, would temporarily circumvent the scheduled 27.4 percent Medicare payment cut for physicians, according to a New York Times ...

WASHINGTON — House members repeatedly patted themselves on the back Thursday for passing a permanent fix to a broken Medicare funding formula, after years of “kicking the can down the road.” But even ...

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