4 Topic Commentaries

Moving Beyond the Budget

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  Scott Gottlieb, MD

  Internal Medicine, Health Policy

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  American Enterprise Institute

  Furthermore, adding new, reimbursable services such as payment for AI can trigger across-the-board cuts under Medicare’s budget-neutrality requirement,

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  Karen E. Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, FACC

  Cardiology, Health Policy

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  Washington University in St. Louis; Barnes-Jewish Hospital

  nothing in value-based payment addressed access or equity.

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  James C. Blankenship, MD, MHCM, MACC, MSCAI

  Interventional Cardiology

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  University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

  But this is true because CMS practices budget neutrality in the MPFS in accordance with federal law.

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  Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD

  Health Policy, Internal Medicine

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  Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

  value-based payment (VBP) links payment to quality and outcomes.

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