Medicare cuts often cause health systems to either shut their doors or begin denying care for certain patients. Medicare physician payment has effectively declined 26% since 2001, causing several ...

Cuts to Medicare physician reimbursement have taken effect, as proposed legislation intended to eliminate those cuts did not pass.

Physician groups are sounding the alarm about a pending 2.8% cut in reimbursement under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule announced on Friday. "To put it bluntly, Medicare plans to ...

House Republicans have a long list of health policies in mind for 2025, including taxation of nonprofit hospitals and massive ...

For people insured through Medicare, changes might be coming ... 10 years to train a new doctor and yet, for some physicians, another year of cuts may be the last year they can survive,” Scott ...

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the pressing issues facing physicians with AMA President Bruce Scott, MD.

"The previously agreed-upon [continuing resolution], while not perfect, would have critically averted most of the 2.83% cut to physician reimbursement in Medicare beginning January 1," Anders ...

Here are 13 numbers highlighting the continued decline of physician pay: 2.83%. The physician pay cut CMS finalized on Nov. 1 in its 2025 Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ...

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommends tying physician payment update to care cost growth; AMA calls for Congress to act on analysis.

On its last weekday in power, the Biden Administration has chosen the next batch of drugs up for price negotiation in ...

The reimbursement cuts coincide with ongoing increases in practice costs. Cuts to Medicare physician reimbursement have taken effect, as proposed legislation intended to eliminate those cuts did ...