Physician groups renewed their calls for an overhaul of Medicare's approach to clinician payment after Medicare formally announced an expected drop in the base rate used in the physician fee schedule for next year.
Physician groups renewed their calls for an overhaul of Medicare's approach to clinician payment after Medicare on Thursday formally announced an expected drop in the base rate used in the physician fee schedule for next year.
"This is almost biblical in its impact," said Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, AMA's president, in a statement, adding that physicians have already faced 7"lean years that include a pandemic and rampaging inflation..... Physicians need relief from this unsustainable journey." A pending bill, the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act, would peg increases in the base rate for the physician fee to the MEI rate. Introduced in April, the bill nowIn a Thursday statement, Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, MPH, MBA, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians , called on Congress to enact an annual inflationary update.
"Family physicians appreciate CMS's actions to better account for important services we provide to keep our patients healthy between office visits," AAFP's Iroku-Malize said.
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