As an interventional pain management physician, I write to you on behalf of my many chronic pain patients who require proper interventional pain management to live a functional life. 

With the recent release of the proposed 2023 physician fee schedule, I am greatly concerned that these cuts will threaten my patients' access to care. These deep and devastating cuts, along with the  COVID-19 pandemic, and threats to my access to health care due to inappropriate fraud and abuse investigations, threaten my practice and my patients' access to care. 

There is a potential for 10.4% cuts in physician payments and a 6% cut in facility payments beginning in January 2023.