The Fourth of July can be counted on for two things: fireworks, and Medicare payment rules, the defining documents that sort DC health policy folk into two camps. On one side, there are the Hill staffers and lobbyists who are trying to strategically plot a path through the appropriations quagmire to get to August recess. Then there are the regulatory staff whose year has just started.
This week features the publication of the long-awaited “prior auth” rule. Now it’s up to Congress to determine what comes next.
You may have heard about the Inflation Reduction Act or changes regarding the Medicare program’s ability to negotiate prescription drug prices. Join me as I host fellow colleagues for a discussion about what these changes mean for you.
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that making sure doctors get paid enough isn’t on many people’s end of year to-do lists. Why should we care? In my opinion, we should care, but not because I am desperate to get in a battle of who has the prettiest line chart depicting how much doctors are (or are not) being paid. I think we should care because most people have no idea what we are (and are not) paying for in our healthcare system – and that makes all the difference.
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