On April 7, 2011, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) approved new recommendations to Congress regarding Medicare payment for imaging and other diagnostic tests. The recommendations reflect a shift in MedPAC’s policies from advocating for tighter controls on physician in-office services to addressing what MedPAC views as inaccuracies in payment and inappropriate use of diagnostic imaging. MedPAC approved the following recommendations: (1) the Secretary should accelerate and expand efforts to package discrete services in the physician fee schedule into larger units for payment; (2) the Congress should direct the Secretary to apply a multiple procedure payment reduction to the professional component of diagnostic imaging services provided by the same practitioner in the same session; (3) the Congress should direct the Secretary to reduce the physician work component of imaging and other diagnostic tests that are ordered and performed by the same practitioner; and (4) the Congress should direct the Secretary to establish a prior authorization program for practitioners who order substantially more advanced diagnostic imaging services than their peers. The recommendations will appear in MedPAC’s June report to Congress.