Fierce Healthcare May 15, 2024
U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Bill Cassidy want to reform how primary care providers get paid through Medicare, and they also want to hear from the healthcare industry about the best way to do it.
Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, and Cassidy, a physician and Republican from Louisiana, introduced a bipartisan bill, the Pay PCPs Act, S. 4338, on Wednesday to better support and improve pay for high-quality primary care providers.
The legislation serves as a marker for future primary care legislation and is intended to solicit feedback on a number of important policy questions, the lawmakers said.
The Pay PCPs Act would task the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with establishing hybrid payments to reward...
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