How Should Congress Pay to Repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate.pub

 Medicare spending could be reduced by far more than 3% without harming patients by giving physicians the tools they need to keep patients healthy, avoid unnecessary tests and procedures, reduce avoidable hospitalizations, and prevent infections and complications. Savings from better care could be used to pay for repealing the SGR and for making reasonable annual updates to physician payments. Physicians would need to slow the growth in Medicare spending by only one-half percentage point per year over the next decade to achieve the necessary savings for SGR repeal, and slowing growth by an additional one-half percentage point would keep Medicare spending growth in line with GDP.