06/04/2013
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"According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office estimate if nothing is done physicians will see reimbursement for services provided to Medicare patients cut by 29.4 percent on January 1, 2012..."
"The system that is currently used to pay physicians for providing services to beneficiaries in the Medicare System is broken and has been for some time."
"This staggering price tag is just one side of the physician payment reform problem."
"I hope that this hearing will not focus narrowly on options that would shift our problems paying for the SGR onto beneficiaries."