AHA calls on MedPAC to act on physician fee schedule payments following recommendations
The AHA today urged the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to take specific actions on physician fee schedule payments following recommendations the commission made during its March meeting. The AHA urged MedPAC to recommend a full inflationary update to physician payment instead of an update based on a portion of the Medicare Economic Index. Additionally, the AHA called for MedPAC to remove recommendations to update relative value unit calculations and urged the commission to reiterate its concerns about expiring alternative payment model incentive payments.
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