On April 16, 2015 President Barack Obama signed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act ( MACRA ) which, among other things, finally repeals the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) mechanism of updating fees to the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). The...
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