The American Medical Association has begun meetings with its member groups to develop a consensus solution to the Medicare physician payment cuts "that send Congress scrambling every year to 18 months to stave them off," CongressDaily reports. The sustainable growth rate formula, which is used to calculate Medicare reimbursements, has imposed periodic reductions in the payments.
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