Unless it undergoes physician-friendly changes in Congress, CMS’s proposed 2023 PFS will cut overall provider payments 4.4%. And radiology is anything but immune.

In fact, so disheartening are the looming slashes across the board in radiology—diagnostic, interventional, nuclear medicine—that a sage and seasoned radiology leader is sounding something of a doomsday warning.

The proposed 2023 PFS will not only hurt vulnerable Medicare and Medicaid populations, he says, but also “do incalculable damage to the medical profession.”

Radiology Business asked the leader behind those words, Bob Still, to expound on his expression of alarm.

“We’re simply at a breaking point,” Still, executive director of the Radiology Business Management Association, responded. “We’ve gone through close to three years of COVID, and we’re not out of the woods yet. In fact, we're heading back into the forest with COVID of late.”