Rep. Greg Murphy (RNC) worries that if the physician has done nothing to control the Medicare payment cuts, doctors can no longer afford to run their own private methods.
“We are on a crucible where we will no longer fight this cut, if we do not get rid of it, we will not reverse them, I do not see how private practice survives,” Murphy said on Thursday Hill’s “Medicare physician’s payment during the state.”
Medicare compensation payment for doctors was reduced to the fifth consecutive year on January 1. While payment was down 2.83 percent. Some argue, however, the cut Is actually more When inflation is taken into account.
Last year, compensation also declined by 1.69 per cent following a reduction of 2 per cent earlier.
There is nothing new with this cut Medicare, because by law, any change in the physician fee schedule should be budget-exhausted or the total Medicare cost will have to be increased by more than $ 20 million in a given year, KFF.
But there are frequent cuts between the increasing costs for medical practices.
Inflation-messy Medicare returns for physicians since 2001 have declined 33 percent, As predicted From the American Medical Association (AMA). Meanwhile, medical practice costs increased by 59 percent during the same period.
The increase in overhead costs for medical practices is contributing to the declining number of physicians operating independently of the hospital or other health care system.
One Analysis from AMA Find.
Murphy, who is a surgeon practicing with his private practice, noted that private professionals spend a big time to float their facilities.
He said, “You are learning to spend at each stage to make sure you can pay the staff.” “And trying to continue the staff so that they don’t only participate in another practice to get more money.”
According to Bruce Scott, a physician and president of the Hill’s event, Private Practice Clausers also damaged patients by disrupting their care.
Murphy said that Congress could perform numerous tasks with the Medicare physician’s return cut, such as improving Medicare benefits, improving the refusal and prithritization process, and passing the Medicare patient’s access to the Cess and Practice Stabilization Act.
In support of the bill, a group of physicians outside the Congress recently rally, which tries to reduce Medicare returns and provide a 2 percent pay increase.
If the Bill will be implemented on April 1, if the Federal Funds are passed by the deadline for March 14.
Murphy is optimistic that the bill will pass this year and Hillon said that the bill has more than 90 Republicans and Democratic co-prolors.
“I am discussing with our speaker and the White House that this is soon this has happened, to ensure that in the CR,” he said using the abbreviation for a constant resolution (CR). “We are on the deadline, we have funded for physicians and if not now, when will we do this.”
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