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Cutting Medicare, Cutting Care: Who Pays the Price?
Cutting Medicare, Cutting Care: Who Pays the Price?
Medicare rules can feel distant until they change what happens in the exam room. Today we sit down with board-certified dermatologist and leading advocate Dr. Sandy Marchese Johnson to explain why a new CMS proposal has physicians calling it a “three-part bomb” and why patients should care right now. We start with the uncomfortable math: Medicare physician reimbursement has effectively gone down over decades, even as inflation and practice expenses rise. Then we translate policy into real li...