Levin Statement on Proposed Medicare Physician Payment Rule

WASHINGTON, DC – Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule to implement the Merit-Based Incentive Payments System (MIPS) – a system for Medicare physician payments that replaced the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula:

"This proposed rule is the culmination of years of efforts to reform our health care delivery system to base reimbursement on quality and value rather than the quantity of services. I look forward to continuing work on this as I review in-depth the proposed rule, and I hope we can continue this effort on a bipartisan basis."

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