The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has eliminated a rule that offered higher payments to doctors who created and implemented an “anti-racism plan.”
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an HHS division, eliminated the provision in a new version of the rule that was released on Nov. 5.
“Do No Harm applauds HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz for undoing the unscientific and discriminatory Biden-era rule,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, an association of health professionals that sued over the rule, said in a statement.
“While masquerading under the misleading ‘anti-racist’ moniker, in practice, these policies injected race-based decision making into the doctor-patient relationship. Such racial discrimination has no place in healthcare. By prioritizing evidence-based policies, HHS is working to rebuild public trust in our medical system,” Goldfarb said….