SGR Repeal Plea Backed by 110 Physician Groups

The physicians groups say the plan structure should:

• Reward physicians for savings
• Enhance prospects for new models
• Tie incentives to a physician's own actions rather than the actions of others or factors beyond their influence
• Harmonize measures and alter incentives in current law
• Encourage collaborative efforts with primary and specialists while preserving patient choice
• Allow specialty and state society initiatives to receive deeming authority
• Recognize the central role of the profession in determining and measuring quality
• Provide exemptions and alternative pathways for physicians in practice situations where recovering investments to achieve reform in care delivery would constitute a hardship.