Author name: Team Aimpa

U.S. healthcare payment policies are accelerating physician consolidation and driving up the cost of care, according to Rick Snyder, MD, president of HeartPlace and chief physician executive at U.S. Heart and Vascular. He is also the vice president of the American Independent Medical Practice Association (AIMPA) and a former president of the Texas Medical Association.

David Eagle, MD, president of the American Independent Medical Practice Association, called the Medicare physician fee schedule “just a fundamental issue”. He said the budget neutrality rules attached to it “are going to need some relief.” Read the full article at Becker’s ASC Review

A proposal from CMS to cut in half the payment for secondary services performed during outpatient visits is drawing fire from a variety of healthcare groups. Read the full article at MedPage Today

At Tina Philip’s private family practice clinic in Round Rock, the staff is just her and her office coordinator. They know their patients. Some have grown up with them. One has already become a doctor. Philip and her coordinator, Kennette Sheriff, know to schedule more time with a patient who is talkative or more medically