Radiology Business November 22, 2023
The American Medical Association is expressing disappointment after Congress passed a bill to avoid a government shutdown without addressing looming physician pay cuts under the Medicare program.
President Joe Biden recently signed the stopgap spending bill, providing federal agencies with funding for fiscal year 2024. However, physician groups including the AMA hoped the continuing resolution would address the “looming and catastrophic” reimbursement reductions.
“Once again, physicians and their patients are being asked to swallow a bitter pill: another round of Medicare cuts,” AMA President Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, said in a statement issued Nov. 16. “Without congressional action, physicians face a 3.37% payment reduction on Jan. 1, 2024—another step in a calamitous march toward shuttered physician practices and reduced patient...
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