Foluso Fakorede, MD, a member of SCAI’s Vascular Disease Council, has contributed a featured article to The Hill: Congress: To improve health equity, provide relief for office-based specialty care.
Dr. Fakorede’s opinion piece highlights the extensive “clinical labor” cuts for office-based specialists. He notes that under the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule that these cuts threaten to undermine efforts to address health inequity, accelerate health system consolidation, and weaken our ability to deal with the pandemic.
He says, “If left in place, these severe cuts will lead to significantly worse health outcomes for Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans—including an increase in easily preventable limb amputation.”
Contact your Member of Congress today
Ask them to include relief to office-based specialists in the February omnibus appropriations legislation to protect access to care for Medicare patients around the country.
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