Medicare finalizes rule to lower payments for surgeries

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Medicare on Friday followed through with its earlier proposal to reduce payment for surgeries, outpatient procedures, and other services it believes can be done more efficiently starting in 2026.

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The Primary Care Collaborative, a primary care advocacy group, called Medicare’s move an important step toward “fixing our broken health system,” and noted that even more could be done to rebalance payment toward primary care.

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