The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC, recommended no change to the physician fee schedule for 2023, a decision that the ACP and AMA described as a freezing of physician payments.
The organizations immediately released statements criticizing the decision.
“MedPAC’s recommended plan would jeopardize access to primary care physicians and could create access problems for other specialties,” ACP President George M. Abraham, MD, MPH, MACP, FIDSA, said in a statement. “In effect, a freeze on payment rates would amount to a payment cut when inflation is factored in.”