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Commissioners on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission also largely supported recommendations to increase pay for physicians and other health professionals slightly less than inflation in 2026.
Dive Brief:
- Commissioners on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission largely supported recommendations to increase pay for physicians and other health professionals by slightly less than inflation, and establish add-on payments for services delivered to low-income enrollees.
- For 2026, the proposal would pay physicians and other clinicians caring for Medicare patients at the projected increase in the Medicare Economic Index minus one percentage point. That would increase their pay by 1.3%, and the add on safety-net reimbursement would bump the average clinician’s fee schedule payments by an additional 1.7%, MedPAC staffers said during a...
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