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Medicare is Breaking. Senior Citizens are Paying the Price.
| U.S. News & World Report

Medicare is Breaking. Senior Citizens are Paying the Price.

Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services slashed government reimbursements to physicians for the fifth year in a row, placing a severe financial burden on seniors and their doctors that will take effect in January – unless Congress intervenes first.

Medicare Physician Reimbursement Policy | RealClearHealth
| RealClearHealth

Medicare Physician Reimbursement Policy – It’s déjà vu all over again

Manufactured out of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the goal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) was to limit the growth in Medicare spending to keep it in line with inflation. Under the SGR, if overall physician payment costs exceeded target expenditures, a cut to Medicare physician payment was triggered.

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| AMA

AMA statement on MedPAC meeting

For a third straight year, MedPAC stressed that physician payment rate updates should be based on an inflation-based index for Medicare.

| Courier Journal

Kentucky Medicare patients risk losing doctors if Congress doesn't act | Opinion

Leaders in the medical community are calling on Sen. Mitch McConnell to take immediate action to protect the health care of Kentucky’s Medicare beneficiaries by supporting H.R. 10073, the “Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act.”  This measure is crucial to prevent a looming threat to patient access and physician care in 2025.

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