Doctors will likely get paid less next year for treating Tennessee’s 1.4 million Medicare beneficiaries. Unless Congress steps in to force a change, doctors will see a nearly 3% cut in their pay.

Indiana physicians fight alongside their patients daily to ensure Hoosiers have access to quality health care. Yet that access is increasingly jeopardized by decades of inaction on fixing a broken Medicare payment system that threatens the ability of many independent practices to keep their doors open.

Before lawmakers finish business for the year, they must also address some of the serious issues Americans are facing with our health care system.

High labor costs remain an ongoing problem threatening providers’ bottom lines. One key reason for this is that payers, including Medicare, have failed to ensure that their physician reimbursement rates keep up with the pace of inflation.

Following AMA advocacy, House majority backs stabilizing 2025 payment. Now a big push from physicians in every specialty, and from across the country, is needed.

Unfortunately, years of Congressional kicking the can down the road have threatened to leave Missouri seniors with diminished access to the physician care upon which they rely. Currently there’s a bill in Congress that could avert this impending crisis, but it will take leadership from our representatives to get it across the finish line.

The Biden administration has finalized 2025 Medicare reimbursement rates for physicians and hospital clinics that providers agree aren’t large enough in light of rising costs.

It's official: Doctors face another year of pay cuts from Medicare in 2025 under a rule finalized by the Biden administration, unless Congress steps in again to avert the decrease.

Federal lawmakers are rushing to soften the blow of Medicare’s 2025 effective pay cut for doctors in 2025, introducing the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act that could limit the cut. But they have little time to act.