According to the North American Spine Society's Spine on the Hill blog, the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means committee are expected to act on a sustainable growth rate bill.
Differences between how the members of the House committee and Senate committee would like to see the final bill mean it could be a while before the bill is passed. In the meantime, NASS is working with the Alliance of Specialty Medicine to meet with staff members on the committees to advocate for SGR repeal this year.
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