Radiology Business February 12, 2024
Bipartisan members of the U.S. Senate have formed a new working group to brainstorm long-term fixes for Medicare’s flawed approach to physician payment.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and colleagues announced the initiative on Friday, also highlighting the need to make “necessary updates” to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. Commonly referred to as MACRA or the “Permanent Doc Fix,” the legislation has faced various challenges in its implementation.
“As the healthcare system has evolved since the inception of the Medicare program, the physician payment system has failed to keep pace with the actual cost of care and the improvements in new services and technologies,” senators wrote in a Feb. 9 announcement about the effort, posted to...
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