Senate mulling cutting PEAR Physicians (Path/EM/Anesthesia/Rads) reimbursement 20%

[sum dude]

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Cross-posting from EM/Anesthesia forums--right now there's a bill out in senate which will cut all PEAR (Path/EM/Anesthesia/Radiology) reimbursement 20%. If senate bill passes with Benchmarking standard, CBO estimates 20% pay cuts to hospital-based physicians. It will basically force everyone to accept InNetwork rates from Insurances. Something is going to pass Congress--it's important we get Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) currently favored by the House (HR3060) passed instead, which won't have such draconian effects.

Please contact your local reps/Senators--this is a Trojan Horse attempt at instituting a Fee Schedule for all physicians (the first of which will be us).

https://www.radiologybusiness.com/topics/policy/acr-supports-proposal-address-surprise-medical-bills
This is about so much more than "surprise bills"

 

[SeisK]

What a phenomenal way to get me to leave medicine.

 

[brandnewcolony]

why did the ACR have to come out and support this bill? Did they have to take a stance? Are there actual physicians that think like this? How likely is it that the bill passes?