Radiology Business December 5, 2023
Years of lobbying by more than 100 medical societies have failed to motivate Congress to do anything about the annual CMS cuts. So the RBMA, along with Rayus and several other provider groups, started the Radiology Patient Action Network in an attempt to give patients a voice in the conversation with Congress.
“Policymakers do react when it becomes a patient access issue or when it becomes a patient quality issue,” Crancer said. “So, we started the Radiology Patient Action Network to try and really bring some of those patient issues to light. We started running polls. We just asked Americans how they feel when it comes to significant cuts to their services. They agree: A cut to their physicians, a...