Americans strongly oppose Medicare cuts to critical radiology services, new RBMA poll finds
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,...