Doctors could see almost 3% Medicare cut in 2025
Doctors could face a nearly 3% cut to their Medicare payments next year — even as Congress is weighing how to mitigate the last round of reimbursement cuts.
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Medicare physician pay has plummeted since 2001. Find out why.
Doctors are paid 29% less today, when adjusted for inflation. This unsustainable path threatens older adults’ access to high-quality physician care.
Senate Finance Committee tackles Medicare physician pay reform
The Senate Finance Committee released a white paper proposing Medicare adjust doctor reimbursement to account for inflation, a key goal for physician lobbies.
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With physicians facing Medicare cuts, AMA and others urge Congress to act
The AMA and 126 other health organizations are asking Congress to pass bills crucial to the sustainability of physician practices.
Washington Must End Physician Price Controls, Reform Medicare Payment System to Prevent Doctor Shortages
A brief released by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute finds that artificially low reimbursement rates used by Medicare to contain costs are threatening patient care, and reform is needed to prevent future doctor shortages.
Fixing Medicare includes easing doctors’ use of data registries
A two-page explainer on clinical data registries in the transition to value-based care outlines how the process of approving clinical data registries under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System is “complex and cumbersome,” and details how “the lack of accessible cost data inhibits progress toward true value-based care.”
Medicare physician payment reform has never been more urgent
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a proposed physician payment schedule that called for—you guessed it—another payment cut next year, 2.8% this time.
Physicians need timely MIPS data to advance value-based care
Sharing Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) data with doctors is a must-fix when it comes to Medicare physician payment reform.
Medicare Proposes Effective 3% Pay Cut For Docs for 2025
Federal officials proposed Medicare rates that effectively would cut physician pay by about 3% in 2025, touching off a fresh round of protests from medical associations.
CMS Proposes 2.8% Cut to Medicare Physician Fees for 2025
CMS on Wednesday proposed a 2.8% decrease in Medicare physician fees for the 2025 calendar year, and physician groups are none too happy about it.
Congress must act on Medicare payment reform as CMS warns of more cuts
With CMS estimating a fifth consecutive year of Medicare payment reductions—this time by 2.8 percent— it’s evident that Congress must solve this problem.
Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposes 2.8% cut to docs
Under the newly proposed 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, doctors would see a 2.8% reduction in average payment rates.
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We’re dedicated to raising awareness of Medicare physician payment system problems so that we can work towards solutions that protect physician practices and patients’ access to care. It’s vital that patients and physicians use their voices to advocate for change.
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