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The table, Medicare’s Payment to Physicians: the Budgetary Effects of Alternative Policies, includes estimates for several replacement and short-term alternatives to the current rules for setting Medicare’s payment rates for physicians’ services.
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The Budgetary Effects of Alternative Policies Relative to CBO's April 2014 Baseline updated for the Final Physician Fee Schedule Rule
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The Budgetary Impact of Alternative Policies Relative to CBO's May 2013 Baseline updated for Final Rule
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CBO details the data and methods used in its June 2013 publication, Rising Demand for Long-Term Services and Supports for Elderly People.
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CBO prepared a glossary to help readers understand the various terms used in its report on dual-eligible beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid—that is, people eligible to receive benefits from both programs at the same time.
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Estimates of Proposals
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Medicare's Payments to Physicians
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This file contains data that supplement information presented in CBO’s 2012 Long-Term projections for Social Security: Additional Information (October 2012).
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Medicare’s payment rates for physicians’ services are scheduled to be reduced by 27 percent in 2013, CBO estimates, under the provisions of law known as Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) mechanism. The SGR mechanism consists of expenditure targets, which are established by applying a growth rate (calculated by formula) to spending for physicians’ services and certain related services in a base period, and annual adjustments to the payment rates, which are designed to bring spending in line with the expenditure targets over time.
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Estimates of Proposals