MedPage Today November 20, 2023
— Yet another physician pay cut will prevent timely access to care
In any career, 25 years of dedicated work is a lot to let go of. In medicine, it amounts to hundreds of patient relationships, and the blood, sweat, and tears that go into starting and maintaining a practice.
Yet, after all that time, one of my physician colleagues recently had to let go of her beloved private practice — not by choice and not without tears for her dear, elderly Medicare patients who now face fewer options for care. Her story is unfortunately not unique.
Physicians and their patients have suffered through more than 2 decades of uncertainty caused by precarious Medicare funding. We’ve seen how these cuts...
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