Becker's Healthcare March 3, 2021
Last year’s Medicare claims data on physician services shows that spending was 19 percent lower than projected levels during the first half of 2020, resulting in a reduction of $9.4 billion in payments to physicians, according to a report released March 3 by the American Medical Association.
The report revealed that Medicare physician spending dropped as much as 57 percent below projected pre-pandemic levels in April of 2020, improving that margin to 12 percent by the end of June.
Decreases in cumulative physician...