SupahPA Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Hello everyone! A friend of mine (a Urologist) sent me something very cool. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/767033?src=rss Incase you do not have a medscape account basically the CMS (Medicare) is proposing reimbursement raise for Primary Care Physicians (7% Family, 5% Internal, and 4% geriatrician) as well as PA's and NP's through pay cuts to specialist. Here are the top 9 pay cuts 1. RadOnc -15% 2. Anesthesiology -3% 3. Cardiology -3% 4. Interventional Radiology -3% 5. Neurosugery -1% 6. Pathology -2% 7. Radiology -4% 8. Urology -2% 9. Vascular Surg -3% I'm pretty excited for this actually, but seeing as I'm in Urology, I might not get the raise. It did not specify if only family practice, Internal or geriatric PAs would get the raise. This schedule is set for 2013. I think its a step in the right direction to get more medical school students and PA students to go into primary care. I also really enjoy the part where certain specialties who make ridiculous amounts of money for sitting in a room all day take a cut to fund those who actually bust their butts. Specialties such as allergy/immunology, gastroenterology, general surg, plastics, and rheumatology will see no change in medicare reimbursements. So what do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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