Good news, bad news for physicians heading into 2025

Becker's Healthcare December 11, 2024
Patsy Newitt

From pay cuts to workforce evolutions, 2024 was a tumultuous year for physicians.

Here are five pieces of good and bad news each for physicians:

The bad news

CMS cuts pay again

Amid rising industry concern about physician reimbursement declines, CMS finalized a 2.83% physician pay cut Nov. 1.

The 2025 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System sets the physician fee schedule conversion factor for 2025 at $32.35, down from $33.29 in 2024.

“The CMS pay cut is a disgrace. As every industry in America is being forced to adjust their pricing due to the out of control inflation over the past two to three years, physicians are being hammered,” Thomas Loftus,...

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