Seniors could pay less starting in January for X-rays, ultrasounds, MRIs or other scans administered in a hospital under a proposal released Thursday by the Trump administration.
Medicare intends to reduce payments to hospitals for routine imaging services, putting them on par with what it pays doctor’s offices for the same services, according to two White House officials who detailed the proposed rule for NOTUS.
It’s the Trump administration’s most aggressive move yet to curb Medicare payments to hospitals, which receive two to four times more on average than doctor’s offices for identical outpatient procedures and who have played an outsized role in driving up health-care spending in the United States.