From the "for what it is worth" dept. URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Medicare Physician Payments at Risk votervoice.net/Shares/BpzzuAl…

🚨Urgent CTA: The Senate has stripped critical Medicare physician payment provisions from its budget reconciliation package — a devastating setback for physicians and patients alike. 🚨 🚨 But it's not too late, take action NOW: votervoice.net/ZOTEC/campaign…

Site-Neutral Payment Reforms Must Be Included in Reconciliation – DC Journal - InsideSources dcjournal.com/site-neutral-p…

The US Senate must restore the Doc Fix (MEI measure), PBM reform and the EPIC Act.

Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. Kathryn O'Reilly, MD, PhD YES. Independent physicians are getting KILLED driving everyone into hospital (or PE) employment. Then the hospitals charge facility fees for regular doctor visits, driving up costs and decreasing access for patients. Dutch Rojas

The Senate shouldn't squander this opportunity to adopt site neutral payment reform, explains Craig M. Wax D.O.. It's past time to address the problem of the government paying hospitals significantly more than independent physicians for the same care. bostonherald.com/2025/06/13/wax…

Senate Finance Committee Shame on the committee for eliminating the doc fix. Perhaps the hospital lobby was too strong and never want physicians to make it in this country. No other health care player gets a cut every year in the US. Shame on putting physicians last and your lobbyists on top!

When adjusted for inflation, physicians #Medicare payments have ⬇️33% since 2001. This letter 👇signed by 75 national organizations, asks Senate leadership to include the Medicare payment provision in the House-passed ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ in the senate legislative

Proud to help lead this effort. Physician pay needs to be fixed and it needs to be done now. The Senate must include inflationary updates and preserve the private practice of medicine newswise.com/articles/massi…

Medicare pays more for the same procedure at a hospital than at a doctor’s office. That’s not just wasteful—it’s insane. John Kennedy's Same Care, Lower Cost Act fixes it. Congress should pass it before Labor Day. realclearmarkets.com/articles/2025/…

17% Spoke today at the South Carolina Orthopaedic Association meetings on the myriad of new headwinds facing independent and employed physician practices. Most alarming was that the estimated percentage of Orthopedic surgeons in private practice in the state is down to the

Site-neutral payments would save billions. Same procedure, same pay, regardless of setting. The only losers: hospital margins.

Dutch Rojas Total scam. Distant outpatient facilities with no extended hours or emergency services overhead, are allowed to bill higher site charges because they are owned by the health system. It was all designed to drive out independent practice and drive non-competitive conglomeration.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝. For too long, physicians have been tricked into shadowboxing one another. Specialist against generalist. David against Goliath, even when both wore the same coat. Enough. The real adversaries? They sit in

Nonprofit health systems issue tax-free municipal bonds. They skip income tax. They skip property tax. They skip sales tax. They even access low-cost capital like Wall Street firms. Independent doctors get commercial loans at full interest and pay taxes at every level. So

So a 2.83 percent pay cut wasn’t enough abuse for 2025. Now Medicare will pause ALL payments to physicians INDEFINITELY as per today’s announcement by CMS. This will be the final nail in the coffin for many private practices.

But patients should not fret. When their community physician is no longer available to care for them because they could not afford to keep their doors open, their local hospital system will gladly welcome them to their outpatient clinic, treat them like widgets, and charge 5-10

Update: CMS said late Wednesday that it was not pausing all Medicare payments to doctors, after a statement earlier in the day stated it would.

Dutch Rojas Ryan Dave Lemox Apparel Manufacturer Guy CMS reimburses hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) at significantly higher rates—often 40-60% more—than ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) for identical procedures under Medicare's outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) versus ASC-specific rates. This disparity stems