A coalition of physician members of Congress has introduced a discussion draft of legislation to reform the budget-neutrality policies applied to the Medicare physician payment schedule.

This legislative proposal, largely based on work that emerged from the AMA Medicare Reform Workgroup, offers practical policy improvements that provide some needed stability to the physician payment system by assuring that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ payment policy is based on reality—not projections.

My latest for the AMA. The whole shebang.