07/20/2022

AMA - Across-the-Board Medicare Physician Pay Cuts are Wrong Way Forward

What’s the news: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is touting its proposed 2023 Medicare physician payment schedule as a significant expansion of access to behavioral health services and cancer screening. But while it will take time to carefully and comprehensively analyze the proposal—which numbers more than 2,000 pages—it is already clear that it needs work because it doesn’t address the harsh economic realities of high medical inflation and continuing COVID-19 pandemic concerns. READ MORE