ORLANDO, Fla.—Many specialties have experienced declining Medicare reimbursement rates and breast surgery is no exception, according to new research.
To investigate trends in Medicare reimbursement for breast surgery over the past 20 years, Terry Gao, MD, and her colleagues obtained reimbursement data for 2003 to 2023, from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician Fee Schedule Look-Up Tool. They also obtained data on yearly inflation from the