Former MedPAC Leaders Back CMS’ Plan To Move Away From AMA’s RUC

Seven former chairs and vice chairs of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) issued a rare joint letter Monday (Sept. 8) endorsing the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul how Medicare sets physician payment rates by adopting an “efficiency adjustment” and relying more on empirical data rather than specialty surveys conducted by the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC).