“We cannot support the Medicare physician payment provisions of HR 4213,” Alexander Hannenberg, MD, ASA president, said in the release. “In addition to sub-inflationary updates in 2010 and 2011, followed by probable payment freezes in 2012 and 2013, a proposal with a payment reduction of over 30 percent in 2014 is not what we had hoped to see. Because of the underlying inadequacy of Medicare payments for anesthesiology services, our specialty is uniquely vulnerable to the proposal. We recognize the enormously challenging financial environment but seek an immediate remedy that creates the fewest obstacles to permanent reform of the SGR formula.”
Read the ASA’s release about HR 4213.
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