President Barack Obama’s deputies are planning to impose a nationwide test of different strategies for paying Medicare providers, which is intended to push providers to prescribe lower-cost drugs and to cut overall Medicare costs.
Experts, however, say the pending Medicare rule will essentially amount to another Medicare funding cut that will likely discourage doctors from treating many Medicare patients.
The rule will affect all Medicare Part B providers and nearly all Medicare drugs, explains Heritage Foundation healthcare policy fellow Robert Moffit at The Daily Signal.
“The ‘test program’ would be a nationwide project, imposing major payment changes that would run for several years,” Moffit notes. “It would, in effect, create an administratively imposed Medicare payment for an entire class of medical professionals, mostly physicians and hospitals.”
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