The 2020 CMS payment reduction for cataract surgery. The systemic problem and proposed solutions.

CMS controls US healthcare policy through a payment system that has no free-market principles. Everyone - patients and doctors - is affected by the flawed method that the US government operates the healthcare payment system.

On July 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) released its proposed fee schedule for 2020.

Shannon Wong, MD explains the problem with the current and proposed fee schedule, it's impact on patients and doctors nationally and possible solutions for the future of the healthcare system.

Cataract surgery (CPT code 66984) is one of the most commonly performed and successful surgical procedures in the world. Over 4 million cataract surgeries are performed annually in the USA. Though technologic, surgical and medical advancements have refined modern cataract surgery into an extremely safe procedure, payments to eye surgeons have been devalued over the past 25 years due to the government payment system.

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