Medicare payment reform now finds itself among the many issues the status of which are up in the air as the dust settles from Tuesday's presidential election.
The Obama administration has been grappling with reforming Medicare reimbursement policy to attempt to insert the value concept into payments. While such efforts had met with strong opposition from physicians and their lobbying groups, the reform had solid bipartisan support in Congress. Thus the reform effort appeared to be immune from GOP meddling.
Not so fast, says a report in Modern Healthcare. With physicians not just carping, but also announcing plans to retire early from practice or refuse to see Medicare patients, Trump and his supporters could decide to tackle the value-based system.
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