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Lawmakers are mulling reform of how Medicare pays physicians, concerned that insufficient reimbursement in the federal insurance program is incentivizing consolidation and increasing healthcare costs. Physician pay has declined over the past two decades when accounting for inflation, spurring independent providers to be acquired by hospital systems rather than go it alone, provider witnesses told […]

Payment disparities based on site of service were another universal complaint at the hearing. “My clinic is on the campus of a major hospital in Dallas,” said Rick Snyder, MD, a cardiologist in independent practice. “When I perform an echocardiogram in my office, Medicare pays my practice a technical fee of about $123. My patient’s

During a Medical Economics and Physicians Practice panel on independent practice last fall, David Eagle, M.D., a medical oncologist with New York Cancer and Blood Specialists and president of the American Independent Medical Practice Association (AIMPA), said inflation updates to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule are the single most important structural change Congress could make.

The lawsuits come as part of a larger affordability push by the presidential administration. Dr. David Eagle, a hematologist-oncologist at New York Cancer & Blood Specialists, applauded these efforts for going after hospital consolidation and contracting practices, which he said are directly raising costs and diminishing patient access every day. Read the full article at