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| AMA

Medicare Trustees warn about access to care for seniors

Medicare Trustees warned today that long-term access to care for seniors is threatened by Medicare’s failure to keep up with the cost of practicing medicine, adding to the drumbeat of similar warnings from policymakers and the American Medical Association.

| Pacific Research Institute

It’s Time for Medicare to Stop Shortchanging Physicians

Medicare reimbursement rates are well below market value and have failed to keep up with the rate of inflation or the rising costs of running a medical practice. This undercompensation is causing a physician shortage already being felt across the country.

| AMA

Why fix Medicare now? There are 66 million reasons

The AMA is optimistic about Congress passing legislation that would provide the long-term Medicare payment fix that physicians need so they can be confident that they are going to be able to financially sustain their practices.

| Bedford Gazette

Medicare must be strengthened for rural health access

The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule is at a breaking point, causing serious physician shortages — and unless policymakers act quickly to fix our healthcare system, things will only get worse. Policymakers in Washington need to step up and reform this broken system.

| Bloomberg Government (Subscription Required)

Medicare Physician Pay Cut Fix Seeks Home in Reconciliation Bill

After unsuccessful attempts to include the reimbursement redo in a 2024 year-end spending bill and the continuing resolution in March, the GOP Doctors Caucus and its co-chair, Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), are optimistic about finding a place for the so-called “doc fix” in the sprawling House GOP reconciliation bill that’s taking shape on Capitol Hill.

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