Leaders of the nation’s top physician organizations are warning that Medicare reimbursement to doctors has become unsustainable and threatens to curtail access to care for millions of older Americans if Congress fails to act.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ most recent annual Medicare reimbursement update sets aside a 2.5% pay bump for doctors, a move that drew criticism from the American Medical Association and other physician groups as continuing a decades-long trend of payments not keeping up with inflation.
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