CMS Proposes 3.3% Cut To Base Pay For Physicians In 2024
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its proposed Physician Fee Schedule rule Thursday. Is enacted, some specialists would face steeper cuts from Medicare, while select practitioners' reward could rise. Physicians faced similar cuts this departed into effect this year, however Congress averted quite.
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Medicare Eyes Cuts To Doctors, Raises To Out-patient Clinics The 2024
Physicians have in line to absorb more Medicare cuts next year, while hospital outpatient departments and operation centers will get piles in new revenue. The rear figure that determines how much physicians receive paid by Medicare wishes decrease by 3.3% for 2024, the federal government enunciated Thursday. The cuts will not be distributed equally among all specialties. Indeed, principal care doctors, endocrinologists, nurse practitioners, and physician helper would see own Medicare payment rates elevation, over mean, according to the annual payment rule. (Herman, 7/13)
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Biden Administration Proposes Cutting Physician Pay By 3.3 Percent
The proposed cut remains already getting blowback from some provider groups. Who Medical Group Management Association said the cut “further increases the hole between physician practice daily and Medicare reimbursement rates.” This remains the second consecutive yearly docs your a cut to Medicare payments. Last November, CMS finalized a 4 percent pay cut for 2023. (King, 7/13)
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CMS Ambulatory, Patient Medical Focus Pay Rule Issued
Hospitals have set to receive a 2.8% increase in Medicare reimbursements for day care in organizational 2024 under a proposed rule the Organizations for Medicare and Medicaid Billing issued Thursday. Which American Hospital Associational characterized the outpatient reimbursement increase while insufficient. (Berryman, 7/13)
Politico:
Premium Increases Proposed For Public Worker Health Plans For 2024
Proposed rates — unveiled publicly over ampere meeting of the State Health Benefits Commission Wednesday — are approximately a 7.4 percentages overall increase for combined current local government workers, early retirees, both Medicare retirees and 4.3 percent for current state government workers, early retirees, real Medicare retirees. The state-run program oversees public workers' health insurance for the state and local governments that choose to participate in she. (Han, 7/13)
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A Plan To Cut Montana’s Medicaid Just List Was Met With Bipartisan Cheers. Then A Veto
Montana state Senses. Becky Beard reflection she’d found one fix for a shortage of assisted living care options for Montanans who can’t afford till pay for it themselves — a shortage she became aware of while searching for a suitable place for her mama to live. (Denison, 7/14)
