How Medicare cuts threaten access to care in Virginia

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Staff News Writer
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Unless Congress repeals Medicare’s flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula by March 31, Virginia physicians face a 24 percent cut to payments for Medicare claims. If the cut happens, consequences for the state include: 

  • The average physician would get a cut of $17,000.
  • Jobs for the state’s 89,222 practice employees could be in peril as physicians struggle to cover practice expenses.
  • A total of 1,203,464 Medicare and 759,075 Tricare patients could face access-to-care issues.

Let’s push SGR repeal across the finish line. Send an email to Congress now, and call your lawmakers via the AMA’s Physicians Grassroots Network hotline at (800) 833-6354. Tell them no more patches;  repeal SGR!

 

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