Replace Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate payment formula with a permanent solution and increase payments to primary care providers.

For example, I am working hard to replace Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate payment formula with a permanent solution that more adequately compensates doctors and on initiatives to increase payments to primary care providers.

Commits to replacing the Medicare SGR formula and boosting primary care payments.

Health Care Workforce | Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
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Schakowsky's official issue page says she is working to replace Medicare's SGR formula and increase payments to primary care providers.

Establishes the promise language and links it to Schakowsky's federal House role and health workforce agenda.

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Health Care Workforce | Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
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Schakowsky said she strongly supported H.R. 3961 and called for a new payment system to fairly reimburse doctors.

Shows concrete effort by Schakowsky to advance a Medicare physician-payment reform before the eventual SGR repeal.

partial same_term A for effort

Congressional Record: Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009
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Section 5501 created incentive payments for primary care services, adding 10 percent to otherwise payable Medicare amounts for 2011-2015.

The ACA enacted a temporary Medicare primary-care payment increase, satisfying the primary-care payment component in part because it was time-limited.

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H.R.3590 Text - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Section 2706
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The House passed H.R. 3590 by 219-212; Schakowsky is recorded as voting Aye.

Shows Schakowsky supported the ACA vote that enacted the Medicare primary-care incentive payment provision.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 97%

The enacted law's title states it amended Medicare to repeal the SGR and improve physician payments.

MACRA permanently replaced Medicare's SGR payment formula, delivering the central SGR-repeal component of the promise in later federal service.

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Public Law 114-10, Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015
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The House passed H.R. 2 by 392-37; Schakowsky is recorded as voting Nay.

Although the SGR repeal became law, Schakowsky did not vote for the final MACRA bill that delivered it, limiting attribution of the final enactment to her.

partial later_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House Roll Call 144, H.R.2
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