Legislative Updates

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Yet another temporary patch to the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate Formula (SGR) has passed Congress. This temporary patch will expire at the end of May. At that time, Congress expects to pass yet ANOTHER temporary patch that will expire on October 1. It's imperative that you let Congress know how detrimental these temporary SGR fixes are to your practice and patients.
 
There are two actions you can take right now to let Congress know about your continued frustrations with the current flawed payment system.
 
SIGN THE PETITION
1. Join with physicians, ASCO and many other groups and sign the "Stop the Medicare Meltdown Petition" by following this link:
 http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/meltdown/.
You may sign the petition as an individual and/or association. If you want your society's name to be listed as a co-sponsor of the petition, please state so in the "Comment" box.
 
Please share this link with your membership so they may sign the petition also.
 
EMAIL YOUR SENATOR 
2. Send an email to your Senators asking them to support a permanent repeal of the SGR. The House of Representatives has already passed a bill that would do this. Unfortunately, the Senate has not taken up that bill.

Legislative Resources
Write Your Legislator
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
NCI State Cancer Legislative Database Program
ASH Advocacy Center
State Cancer Legislative Database Program
Information for Eligible Professionals Who Participated in the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)