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MedPAC gives Congress a roadmap to Medicare reform

MedPac recommended that Congress link physician payment updates to medical inflation.

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Medicare pay cuts: What they mean for rural America

Patients in rural areas are already at higher risk for poor health outcomes. Squeezing the physician practices that care for them is not the answer.

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Ochsner Health’s digital program recognized for BP management

A study found Ochsner Health’s digital hypertension platform has clinical benefits, potential long-term savings and improvements to population health. 

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Pearl of the Week: A team approach in value-based care

Find resources on building a value-based care practice. 

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Medicare pay cuts: How they endanger physician practices

Physician practices are businesses too. Lower pay over two decades increasingly leaves no option other than cut back staff and—in some cases—close.

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Spending proposal means devastating 5th year of Medicare pay cuts

Congress is on the verge of abandoning patients and physicians by adopting a short-term funding deal that fails to address broken Medicare pay system.

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Medicare & Medicaid
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Congress abandons Medicare patients and their physicians

Congress’s new spending package locks in a devastating fifth consecutive year of Medicare cuts, jeopardizing access to care for 66 million Medicare patients.

Press Releases
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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of March 3, 2025

In the news: Mortality rates among health care workers, EHR working time for physicians, MedPAC’s move toward Medicare pay reform and more.

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March 7, 2025: Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update

GOP Doc Caucus endorses H.R. 879, the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act and more in the latest Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update.

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