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Medicare proposes across-the-board cuts to medical procedure payments, targeting overpriced services and aiming to reduce disparities between highly paid specialists and primary care doctors, while criticizing the outdated and complex billing system influenced by industry lobbying.
Congress is considering changes to the Medicare physician pay system for the first time since 2015, potentially reigniting conflicts between primary care doctors and specialists over payment rates. With Medicare proposing a 2.8% cut to its main physician pay rate next year, the urgency for reform has increased, putting pressure on physicians as Congress has previously scaled back but allowed some pay-rate reductions to proceed.
A German-Dutch research team has presented the first "Map of the Microverse" by determining which microorganisms live together and redefining microbial niches by using a "social niche breadth" approach. The researchers found that in most habitats, generalists are dominant, and the genomes of generalists are not particularly large. They also discovered two contrasting evolutionary strategies: In habitats with relatively low local biodiversity, the specialists have a relatively small genome, while in highly biodiverse habitats such as soils, the genome of the specialists is significantly larger.