Chief Healthcare Executive July 11, 2024
Health systems and physicians criticized proposed payments for 2025 as inadequate. Planned cuts in payments to doctors were described as ‘death by a thousand cuts.’
The federal government has released proposed payments for doctors and some hospital services for 2025, and the plans were panned by clinicians and healthcare advocates.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released proposals for outpatient care and physician payments Wednesday. Healthcare advocates are pushing the Biden administration and Congress to do more. If past years are an indication, the final payments may be a bit bigger than the initial proposals.
Here’s a quick rundown on the proposals.
Hospital outpatient services
The CMS has proposed a 2.6% increase in outpatient services for 2025. Earlier this...
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