Radiologists, nuclear medicine specialists and vascular surgeons are bracing to see if they’ll take the worst of Medicare physician payment cuts next year, Axios reports. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is due to release a final fee schedule as early as this week that’s expected to continue phasing in reductions to medical specialties — and likely prompt appeals to Congress for a year-end reprieve.
A draft fee schedule released in July put most specialties in line for modest cuts. Infectious disease doctors and internists would buck the trend and receive increases of 5% and 3%, respectively.
Interventional radiology could see the deepest cuts, with a 4% cut, while radiology, vascular surgery and nuclear medicine could each see 3% reductions. Read more.
