Congress fails to stop 2.83% Medicare payment cut for 2025
Another year, another cut to the Medicare payments needed to keep physicians and their practices going. Congress must turn toward long-term reform.
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Medicare is Breaking. Senior Citizens are Paying the Price.
Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services slashed government reimbursements to physicians for the fifth year in a row, placing a severe financial burden on seniors and their doctors that will take effect in January – unless Congress intervenes first.
Medicare Physician Reimbursement Policy – It’s déjà vu all over again
Manufactured out of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the goal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) was to limit the growth in Medicare spending to keep it in line with inflation. Under the SGR, if overall physician payment costs exceeded target expenditures, a cut to Medicare physician payment was triggered.
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Big Medicare pay fixes are needed to save this solo practice
Internist Jason Goldman, MD, brings a personal touch to care, but isn’t sure how long that can survive under a broken Medicare payment system.
AMA: Congress fails patients and physicians
The AMA faulted Congress for allowing cuts in Medicare reimbursement to go into effect on Jan. 1.
Congress Must Protect Rural Access to Health Care
Rural communities face growing challenges in accessing health care, and Medicare’s looming physician payment cuts threaten to exacerbate this crisis.
Physicians facing 2.8 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement in 2025
Physicians are facing another Medicare payment cut, even though costs of running a practice and purchasing medical equipment have gone up. This reoccurs year-after-year, contributing to a 29 percent payment decrease since 2001.
Putting Patients First Means Stabilizing Medicare Reimbursement
Now that the dust has settled from the election, it’s time for Washington to look past all the politics and advance bipartisan reforms that help expand Americans’ access to quality care.
AMA statement on MedPAC meeting
For a third straight year, MedPAC stressed that physician payment rate updates should be based on an inflation-based index for Medicare.
Berggreen: Congress must act to protect patient access to doctors
Millions of Americans may soon lose access to their doctors — unless Congress prevents a pay cut that could put many of them out of business.
To advance rural health, Congress should act to fix Medicare
At Sanford Health’s rural health care summit, the AMA’s president tells why Congress needs to pass proposed Medicare payment and prior authorization reforms.
Lawmakers must act this year to fix Medicare reimbursement for physicians
Medicare now provides insurance for one in five Americans, and the number of beneficiaries is on track to continue growing. Yet the program that pays physicians remains chronically underfunded and hamstrung by flawed policy.
Join the Fight to Fix Medicare Now
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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