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Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)

A target growth rate for Medicare spending enacted by law in 1997 that, if exceeded, is supposed to trigger physician payment cuts. The SGR-triggered cuts are continuously delayed and “pushed back” year after year.

Biological Drugs

Biological, or Biologic, drugs are those made by or from living organisms (i.e. gene therapy, vaccines, antibodies, stem cells); such drugs, and their generic forms,…