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 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.

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.

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.

Under the newly proposed 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, doctors would see a 2.8% reduction in average payment rates.

The Biden administration is proposing a 2.8% decrease to physician payments in its newly released pay proposal for physicians, drawing near-immediate protest from the industry.

Proposal would mean five straight years of cuts and sends clear signal: With older adults’ access to care on the line, Congress must fix Medicare now.

It seems my parents' previous primary care physician – with whom they had a longstanding relationship – left and was very blunt about why: Medicare reimbursements had forced her practice to consolidate with a major hospital system.

The Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is well-intentioned, but its reporting requirements are burdensome to physician practices and often appear to be clinically irrelevant, with a focus on checking boxes rather than improving care.