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Reform Can’t Wait: Medicine Prescribes Urgently-Needed Improvements to Flawed Medicare Payment System - 11/13/2024

When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in July proposed a fifth consecutive round of cuts to physicians’ Medicare payments – contributing to a nearly 30% lag behind inflation growth since 2001 – medicine immediately mobilized.

Congress Introduces Stopgap Bill to Halt Impending Medicare Pay Cut - 11/13/2024

While Congress considers a comprehensive Medicare payment fix, this new bill would halt the current proposed cut and provide a needed payment increase over the next year.

Majority of House Members Sign On to Appeal to Fix Medicare - 11/13/2024

Supporting medicine’s plea to halt the scheduled 2.8% cut in Medicare payment for physicians in 2025, a majority of U.S. House of Representatives members signed on to a letter urging House leadership to take action before the end of its current session Jan. 3.

TMA Critiques CMS’ Proposed Fee Schedule for Myriad Shortfalls - 11/13/2024

Noting that “private practices are breaking under the pressure of lack of adequate payment and increasing overhead,” the Texas Medical Association recommended numerous improvements to the 2025 proposed Medicare physician fee schedule. The schedule leads off with a 2.8% cut to physician payments and adds layers of complexity to its Quality Payment Program, among other administrative burdens.

Medicare Proposes Yet Another Physician Pay Cut in 2025 - 11/13/2024

In yet another destabilizing move for physician practices, Medicare on July 10 proposed what amounts to another pay cut for the nation’s physicians in the face of increasing costs, positioning organized medicine for heightened advocacy.

Congress Mitigates 2024 Medicare Physician Pay Cut - 11/13/2024

Congress recently passed legislation halving the 3.4% Medicare physician pay cut that took effect on Jan. 1, 2024, following a months-long, high-pressure advocacy campaign by the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and others in organized medicine. But TMA and its allies continue to push for additional reform given that any cut threatens physicians’ practice viability and vulnerable patients’ access to care.