{"id":7024,"date":"2025-07-21T05:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=7024"},"modified":"2025-07-21T05:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:15:07","slug":"why-providers-arent-happy-with-cms-outpatient-medicare-physician-payment-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=7024","title":{"rendered":"Why Providers Aren\u2019t Happy with CMS\u2019 Outpatient Medicare Physician Payment Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/07\/hospital-physician-healthcare\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CMS proposed a 2.4% Medicare payment increase for hospitals\u2019 outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers in 2026, along with a new two-tiered physician reimbursement structure based on participation in value-based care models. Provider groups are welcoming the short-term boosts, but they fear the changes don\u2019t go far enough to address their long-term financial pressures.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/07\/hospital-physician-healthcare\/\">Why Providers Aren\u2019t Happy with CMS\u2019 Outpatient Medicare Physician Payment Proposal<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMS proposed a 2.4% Medicare payment increase for hospitals\u2019 outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers in 2026, along with a new two-tiered physician reimbursement structure based on participation in value-based care models. Provider groups are welcoming the short-term boosts, but they fear the changes don\u2019t go far enough to address their long-term financial pressures. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}