Medicare Payment Changes and Year-End Physician Proposals

CMS finalized payment changes for certain 340B outpatient drugs and routine imaging, projecting $1.1 billion in drug savings next year and $2.4 billion on imaging over a decade; these are agency estimates, not demonstrated results. The AMA is pressing Congress to include physician-payment provisions in a year-end package before the Dec. 11 funding deadline. Its requested updates and delays remain advocacy proposals, not enacted policy.