MedPage Today January 17, 2025
Joyce Frieden

— “Safety net” providers who serve low-income Medicare beneficiaries would get an extra pay bump

Physicians would get a 3% Medicare fee-for-service pay increase — with primary care doctors getting a little more and other doctors getting a little less — and hospitals would also receive a pay bump if Congress adopted two draft recommendations approved Thursday by the Medicare Payment Assessment Commission (MedPAC).

“I think this reflects really excellent work,” Commissioner Scott Sarran, MD, MBA, of Triple Aim Geriatrics in Cook County, Illinois, said of the physician payment recommendation. “We are threading a variety of needles,” and although concerns remain about ensuring more holistic care and moving more toward outcomes-based payments, “those are ongoing issues we will continue to...

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