Becker's Healthcare January 23, 2025
While 2025 brings possible changes to policies and economics facing ASCs, some centers are facing an intensification of the same problems they have been facing for years.
“Until there’s … a federal reform on physicians being able to practice medicine and not the ‘pay-viders’, the board is going to keep fighting the same fight,” said Andrew Lovewell, CEO of Columbia (Mo.) Orthopaedic Group.
Medicare
In November 2024, CMS finalized a 2.83% physician pay cut in its 2025 Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ASC payment system. The physician fee schedule conversion factor for 2025 is $32.35, down from $33.29 in 2024.
The move follows a trend of declining physician pay. CMS cut overall physician pay by...
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