AMA Launches Campaign To Fight Medicare Payment Cuts
On Thursday, American Medical Association President James Rohack is scheduled to unveil a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign intended to encourage U.S. residents to lobby lawmakers to eliminate the 21% cut to physicians' Medicare payments that took effect earlier this week. AMA has been calling for a permanent solution to the payment issue and a repeal of the sustainable growth rate formula, which determines changes in Medicare reimbursement rates based on what the program paid physicians in previous years.
- "AMA to Launch Massive 'Doc Fix' Campaign" (Roth, Roll Call, 6/1).