A Medicare effort to boost payments to primary care doctors and better coordinate care for patients with complex medical needs has set off a lobbying frenzy to forestall steep cuts specialists would face as a result. The fight over physician payments underscores how Medicare’s strict budgeting rules can create unintended consequences, like pitting medical specialties against each other, Axios reports. Read more.
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