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On Nov. 1, CMS finalized a 2.83% physician pay cut for its 2025 Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ASC payment system, marking the fifth consecutive year of cuts to physician reimbursements.
Physicians claim that additional reimbursement cuts, on top of inflation and other market pressures, have a ripple effect on their practices and patients.
“Unfortunately, physicians are losing money in multiple scenarios in medicine,” Taif Mukhdomi, MD, interventional pain physician at Columbus, Ohio-based Pain Zero, told Becker’s. “The most prominent loss of physician revenue is Medicare’s consistent decreasing of physician reimbursement in office settings while supporting hospital-setting healthcare services. This trend affects all insurances, as Medicare is the benchmark of most if not all healthcare insurance...
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