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.
Following AMA advocacy in leading the charge to reform the Medicare payment system, a bipartisan group in the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a bill that would provide a 4.7% payment update in 2025.
Congress should implement an annual, inflation-based payment update as part of the Medicare payment system for doctors, two rheumatologists write.
Fox News' Alicia Acuna on how inflation has affected the health care industry leaving Americans on Medicare and Medicaid struggling to afford health services. President of AMA, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, is quoted in the report.
About a quarter of all House members have signed a letter calling on Congress to overhaul the Medicare payment system.
To be successful in advancing value-based care, physicians in Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) need timely access to that kind of data.
This AMA Update features AMA President-elect Bruce Scott, MD, and explores AMA's campaign to reform Medicare payment, including the steps that we're taking and what's at stake.
The Medicare payment system is on an unsustainable path, threatening patients' access to physicians.
Medicare is a mess. Our federal politicians need to take a hard look at the big three entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, to find reforms to those programs so our nation does not go broke.
Lawmakers are scrutinizing the implementation of a 2015 Medicare law that doctors groups say is contributing to a pay squeeze.
Now’s the time for Congress to [work] urgently to fix a broken Medicare payment system that is placing enormous financial pressure on physicians and threatening the care we provide.
The cost of practicing medicine is hitting a high mark for the 21st century, yet doctors are facing a 3.36% cut in pay under the proposed 2024 Medicare physician payment schedule published yesterday.
We’re dedicated to raising awareness of Medicare physician payment system problems so that we can work towards solutions that protect physician practices and patients’ access to care. It’s vital that patients and physicians use their voices to advocate for change.
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