Radiology Business April 15, 2024
Leaders of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance continue advocating for reform in how Medicare pays radiologists and other physicians amid years of stagnation.
The legislative body held a hearing on this topic April 11, titled “Bolstering Chronic Care through Medicare Physician Payment.” It featured testimony from medical association leaders representing surgeons and family physicians, among others.
Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., emphasized that Medicare is “no longer only an acute care program.” Rather, program spending is “dominated” by chronic conditions “with a crazy quilt of appointments, prescriptions and care plans that lead to confusion and worse healthcare.”
“I know members of the committee are interested in reforms to the way physicians and nonphysician practitioners are paid,” Wyden said...
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