Physician pay has decreased 33% from 2001 to 2025. How does that impact patients? What do doctors have to say? And, how can a ...

The difficulty that stakeholders face in comparing contracts with different structures could be solved by a standardized ...

Physician groups are sounding the alarm about a pending 2.8% cut in reimbursement under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule announced on Friday. "To put it bluntly, Medicare plans to ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to hike Medicare fees for doctors by 6.62%, offsetting inflation and cuts made this ...

As a result, since 2020, Medicare has cut physician pay each year, despite rising costs for physicians to run their practices. Congress has introduced special legislation four times since 2020 to try ...

OBFA and its partners signed a letter to the leadership in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate requesting that Medicare Physician Fee Schedule reform include provisions to ...

5. Some procedures are witnessing larger changes, including a 7% increase for esophagogastroduodenoscopy biopsies and a 5% increase for spinal neurostimulator procedures. 6. CMS projects that ASC ...

The latest cuts follow CMS implementing a 1.25% reduction in overall physician reimbursement for 2024, setting the updated Medicare conversion factor at $32.74 — a 3.4% drop from the previous year.

Congress must focus on issues of importance to skilled nursing, assisted living and other providers, PALTmed said in a recent letter to lawmakers.

Several physician groups have voiced their support for a bill, introduced Jan. 31, that aims to cancel the 2.83% Medicare physician pay cut and provide a 2% pay increase to stabilize practices and ...