Brooks-LaSure: CMS Urges Congress To Tackle Pending Doc Cuts

CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said the agency is encouraging Congress to tackle looming physician pay cuts and signaled she’s open to speaking with lawmakers about the issue, in remarks at the Milken Institute health summit Thursday (Dec. 8). Her remarks come as providers frantically lobby Congress to offer them relief from Medicare pay cuts in CMS’ 2023 physician fee schedule rule. That lobby has been complicated by partisan divides over the year-end spending package that is viewed as the vehicle...