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.
Following AMA advocacy in leading the charge to reform the Medicare payment system, a bipartisan group in the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a bill that would provide a 4.7% payment update in 2025.
Congress should implement an annual, inflation-based payment update as part of the Medicare payment system for doctors, two rheumatologists write.
Today, it can take weeks to see a doctor, and when patients do get in, appointments last about 15 minutes. The reason is simple. America is facing a shortage of doctors.
As a direct result of AMA advocacy, a new bipartisan bill was introduced in the U.S. House that would give physicians a positive Medicare payment update for next year.
A bipartisan bill introduced in the House would stop Medicare payment cuts from taking effect in January and give physicians a pay increase.
Lawmakers and numerous health and physician organizations are supporting the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act that would increase, not cut, Medicare reimbursement for doctors in 2025.
Lawmakers in Congress are working to prevent planned Medicare payment cuts to physicians, much to the relief of a host of healthcare organizations. But the clock is ticking.
Physicians and other healthcare practitioners may get a pay boost in 2025 through a bipartisan bill seeking to block planned Medicare pay cuts and to provide the first inflationary update to physician pay in years.
House members introduced a bill today that would stop the Medicare pay cut and provide a pay increase.
A bipartisan group of House members introduced a bill that would reverse a proposed 2.8% Medicare Physician Fee Schedule payment cut and give physicians a raise equivalent to half of the increase in the Medicare Economic Index, a measure of healthcare inflation.
The cost of providing basic health care to seniors is rising and industry professionals in Santa Cruz County are sounding the alarm that the system is dangerously close to breaking.
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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