Why it matters: If payment cuts land on surgical fees while primary care absorbs recovery management, practices doing that unpaid or underpaid follow-up work face a widening gap between workload and reimbursement.
Medicare · yesterdayNew signals on Medicare physician payment show CMS proposed fee cuts aimed at the operating room, while primary care physicians who manage recovery after surgery carry much of the downstream work. A separate read says health care was the only one of five sectors to cut spending commitments this spring.
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