Let me explain this again ... In an early version of health care reform, the House considered including a permanent "doc fix," which would have pleased the physicians as well as solved a ...

How does this doc fix still need fixing? Let me count the ways. 1) Largely retains fee-for-service care. A cornerstone of the SGR repeal proposal lies in supplanting fee-for-service (FFS ...

Wyden acknowledged that the offset is “not exactly realistic budgeting,” but said the doc fix is “budget fakery” too. Pelosi expressed support for Wyden’s efforts Thursday.

Therefore, the appropriate measure of the cost of the doc fix is spending with the fix relative ... fee increase does not seem overly generous to me), or contains provisions that may increase ...

Coverage of the “doc fix” bill passed by the House last week ... Stacy Sanders, federal policy director for the advocacy group Medicare Rights Center, told me recently, “This is problematic because ...

It's hard to find anyone in Washington who likes the doc-fix: Not Republicans, not Democrats and especially not health care economists (Brandeis University's Stuart Altman once told me he'd never ...

A bill to permanently reform the ridiculous annual charade over the Medicare “doc fix” passed the House today ... I suppose this will get me a lot of flack for being a sellout, but I think ...

A 1.25% doc fix for 12 months and a 1.5% fix for 10 months ... In the meantime, please let me know if you have any questions. Before concluding, I wanted to discuss MedPAC and its meeting last ...

“So to me, we should reward Speaker Boehner for working ... He said in the report he wishes CHIP were extended four years, but “getting the doc fix done once and for all is a positive ...

Therefore, the doc fix should count as a budgetary cost of enacting ... about how ACA should have been scored last year seems to me to either be irrelevant to that claim or thoroughly undermine ...