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Surgeons Explain Why CMS Efficiency Assumption Is Wrong

December 2, 2025

In its Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule for 2026, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created a -2.5% 鈥渆fficiency adjustment鈥� based on the assumption that surgeons are faster today in completing procedures than they were 5 years ago.聽In this video, Drs. Thomas Tsai and Christopher Childers discuss their that contradict the CMS assumption.

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