Thanks to Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, Washington has zeroed in on reducing inefficiencies, waste, fraud, and abuse across the government. With one program in particular drawing the interest of both sides of the aisle: Medicare.

As is par for the course, Democrats are telling the American people any Medicare reforms are tantamount to “cutting benefits.” (RELATED: MIKE BURGESS: Beware Of Fake Ozempic-Style Drugs)

Enough fearmongering from the left.

As a former member of Congress and M.D., I can tell you: reforming Medicare, without touching benefits, is absolutely possible.

One way to do so is common-sense site-neutral payment reforms.

Right now all across the country, big hospital systems are buying up smaller physician practices and rebranding them as “hospital outpatient facilities” – all so they can charge two to three times more even though patients are seeing the same doctor and receiving the same service.

For example, Medicare pays $255 for an epidural injection when provided in a physician’s office, but the cost for the same........

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