Medicare wants to cut the base rate used to determine physicians' pay, prompting clinician groups to renew calls for Congress to come up with a long-term solution.
Federal officials on Thursday proposed Medicare rates that effectively would cut physician pay by about 3% in 2025, touching off a fresh round of protests from medical associations.
This proposed cut is mostly due to because of the 5-year freeze in the physician schedule base rate mandated by the 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act . Congress designed MACRA with an aim of shifting clinicians toward programs that would peg pay increases to quality measures. "Previous quick fixes have been insufficient — this situation requires a bold, substantial approach," Bruce A. Scott, MD,"A Band-Aid goes only so far when the patient is in dire need."
"As a first step, Congress must enact an annual inflationary update to help physician payment rates keep pace with rising practice costs," said Steven P. Furr, MD, AAFP's president, in a statement released Wednesday."Any payment reductions will threaten practices and exacerbate workforce shortages, preventing patients from accessing the primary care, behavioral health care, and other critical preventive services they need.
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