Cuts

An in-depth interview about the effects of the CMS’s 2025 physician fee schedule on patient access topped Healio Dermatology’s most-read articles of November, with FDA news also garnering attention.

A letter from the AMA's executive vice president called for CMS to be “fully transparent” on the impact that payment cuts in the 2025 Physician Fee Schedule will have on patients and physicians.

Nephrology practices could leave the Kidney Care Choices model for patients with chronic kidney disease because of planned reductions in Medicare payments that are “much larger than anticipated,” according to a nephrology advocacy group.

The American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons has issued a follow-up statement to Congress on the recently released omnibus package, which proposes payment cuts for Medicare physicians in 2023, according to a press release.

U.S. Reps. Ami Bera, MD, D-Cali., and Larry Bucshon, MD, R-Ind., have introduced legislation that would stop planned cuts in Medicare payments to physicians in 2023.

The ACP said it was encouraged by many provisions outlined in the proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2023; however, both ACP and the AMA expressed concern over cuts to physician payments, which would take effect Jan. 1.

The Dialysis Vascular Access Coalition and other national advocacy groups are racing against the clock to reverse proposed payment cuts – set to take effect Jan. 1 – on vascular access procedures done by interventionalists and surgeons.