Can this be the year Medicare changes its payment formula?

Possibly, but I’m not holding my breath. MedPAC will release suggestions this week:

Congress is facing a bleak choice this year: Cut payments to doctors and reduce Medicare beneficiaries’ access to care, or let physician payments grow and raise beneficiaries’ premiums and co-payments.

Lawmakers are looking for a third way out: revising Medicare’s system of payment to doctors.

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