Medscape March 12, 2024
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a measure that softened – but did not completely eliminate – a 2024 cut in a key rate used to determine how physicians are paid for treating Medicare patients.
While physician groups hailed the move as partial relief, they say they’ll continue to press for broader changes in the Medicare physician fee schedule.
The Medicare provision was tucked into a larger spending package approved last week by the US House and Senate.
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Medical Association (AMA), and other groups have lobbied Congress for months to undo a 3.4% cut in the base rate, or conversion factor, in the physician fee schedule for 2024.
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