Established with the intent to control healthcare costs through calculated payments and budget caps, Medicare’s payment model has instead contributed to healthcare inflation and now threatens to compromise patient health.

The AMA and 126 other health organizations are asking Congress to pass bills crucial to the sustainability of physician practices.

A brief released by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute finds that artificially low reimbursement rates used by Medicare to contain costs are threatening patient care, and reform is needed to prevent future doctor shortages.

A two-page explainer on clinical data registries in the transition to value-based care outlines how the process of approving clinical data registries under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System is “complex and cumbersome,” and details how “the lack of accessible cost data inhibits progress toward true value-based care.”

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a proposed physician payment schedule that called for—you guessed it—another payment cut next year, 2.8% this time.

Sharing Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) data with doctors is a must-fix when it comes to Medicare physician payment reform.

Federal officials proposed Medicare rates that effectively would cut physician pay by about 3% in 2025, touching off a fresh round of protests from medical associations.

CMS on Wednesday proposed a 2.8% decrease in Medicare physician fees for the 2025 calendar year, and physician groups are none too happy about it.

With CMS estimating a fifth consecutive year of Medicare payment reductions—this time by 2.8 percent— it’s evident that Congress must solve this problem.