A 12-page Executive Summary offering summary highlights for 22 Accountable Care Organizations and ACO solutions companies regarding their successes during the most recent MSSP performance year.
Decrease in Inflation-Adjusted Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Payments in Surgery from 2013 to 2023
- surgical procedures overall: payment decreased 22.8%
- vascular surgery: payment decreased 25.8%
- endocrine surgery: payment decreased 22.0%
- general surgery: payment decreased 27.0%
- thoracic surgery: payment decreased 19.2%
- surgical oncology: payment decreased 22.1%
- breast surgery: payment decreased 22.4%
- urology surgery: payment decreased 2.2%
- neurosurgery: payment decreased 22.8%
- obstetrics/gynecological surgery: payment decreased 19.9%
- orthopedic surgery: payment decreased 24.7%
Source: Surgery, "Analysis of 10-year trends in Medicare Physician Fee Schedule payments in surgery," January 22, 2024 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039606023009522