Lawmakers should tie physician payment updates to the Medicare Economic Index (MEI) minus one percentage point, which, if enacted would give doctors a 1.3% pay bump next year, Congress’ Medicare pay advisors said in their annual report released last week -- around the same time lawmakers were advancing a continuing resolution (CR) that failed to address the 2.83% Medicare reimbursement cut that went into effect for physicians in January.
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Bertagnolli Raises Alarms On NIH Funding Cuts, Policy Shifts
In an exclusive interview with Inside Health Policy, former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Monica Bertagnolli said scientific disagreement and tolerance for uncertainty are key to NIH’s scientific mission, but scientists' work is threatened by funding cuts and increasing political polarization on scientific issues.
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HHS Reorganization, Reduction In Force Plans Remain Unclear
Agencies were told to submit reorganization and reduction in force plans to the White House Office of Management Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) last week, but these documents are so far not publicly available.
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