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With St. Louis Media Tour, MSMA Urges Congress to Repeal SGR
MSMA leaders participated in a St. Louis Media Tour on Jan. 26 to communicate the importance of a permanent repeal of the SGR to avoid Medicare payment reductions of 21 percent effective March 1. This is an ongoing situation that comes up every year and is brought about by the faulty sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula utilized by Medicare. Each year that Congress delays fixing the formula, the projected reduction in payments increases.
MSMA Responds to Health System Reform
MSMA is committed to meaningful health care reform and appreciates the difficult but important task Congress has at hand. However, we are deeply concerned that the far-reaching set of proposals being considered by the United States Senate – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) – does not adequately address some of the most important problems in the current system. In fact, we fear this proposal would increase the cost of health care and allow unaccountable government bureaucrats to stand between patients and their physicians.
View Position Paper. View News Release.
MSMA Goes to Washington
MSMA leaders were in Washington, DC, this fall, talking to Missouri's congressional delegation about health care reform concerns. MSMA President Tom Sparkman, MD (Cape Girardeau), President-Elect Lent Johnson, MD (Hannibal), Council Chair Gary Pettett, MD (Kansas City), Council Vice Chair Steve Slocum, MD (St. Louis), and MSMA staff called on the Capitol Hill offices of Senators Kit Bond and Claire McCaskill, and the entire Missouri delegation in the House of Representatives.
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