MedPage Today March 17, 2025
— Issues they’ll focus on include Medicare fee schedule cuts and potential cuts to Medicaid
Six Democratic physician members of Congress are forming the Congressional Doctors Caucus, a group aimed at addressing a variety of healthcare concerns from potential Medicaid cuts to the reduction in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
“For a long time, there were only two Democratic doctors in Congress: myself and [Rep.] Raul Ruiz, [MD],” Rep. Ami Bera, MD (D-Calif.) told MedPage Today in an interview Friday, the day the group was launchedopens in a new tab or window. Republican physicians in Congress — of which there are many more — “have their own GOP Doctors Caucus. They certainly would invite us to participate in some of...
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