Neurosurgeons Express Serious Concerns with Medicare Physician Payment Rules
Urge CMS to Make Substantial Changes Before Finalizing Payment Overhaul
Washington, DC—Today, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and Congress of Neurological
Surgeons (CNS) submitted comments responding to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposal to
overhaul the way Medicare pays physicians. The proposed rule implements key elements of the Medicare Access and
CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which repealed Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and replaced
it with a new quality payment program — the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment
Models (APM).
“MACRA presents an unprecedented opportunity to fix the currently broken and burdensome Medicare quality
programs, which have little meaningful impact on quality and have been extremely disruptive to physician practices,”
remarked AANS president, Frederick A. Boop, MD, FAANS, chair of the department of neurosurgery at the
University of Tennessee in Memphis.
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