Radiology Business October 25, 2024
Americans strongly oppose planned Medicare cuts to critical imaging services, according to new polling results from the Radiology Business Management Association released Thursday.
About 76% of those surveyed said they’re against reducing physician payments for Medicare services. Another 80% of women reached disagree with cutting doc pay for mammograms, RBMA noted.
The findings come from a poll of 521 Americans conducted this year by the Remington Research Group and commissioned by the Radiology Patient Action Network. RPAN is a coalition of radiology groups fighting for better funding of imaging services amid a planned 2.8% cut to the conversion factor used to calculate Medicare physician payments.
“These findings should serve as a wake-up call to policymakers,” Linda Wilgus,...