“The table, Medicare’s Payment to Physicians: the Budgetary Effects of Alternative Policies, includes estimates for several replacement and short-term alternatives to the current rules for setting Medicare’s payment rates for physicians’ services. The starting date for all of these alternative policies would be April 1, 2015.The table includes an updated estimate for H.R. 4015 and S. 2000, the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014, which are identical bills introduced on February 6, 2014. This updates the CBO cost estimate of that legislation for the April 2014 baseline—which incorporates H.R. 4302, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-93), enacted on April 1, 2014—and the final physician fee schedule rule.”