With only a few days left for Congress to act to prevent a scheduled 2.8 percent physician pay cut from taking effect on January 1, ACP needs all internal medicine physicians  to urge Congress to include a physician payment fix that prevents the 2.8 percent cut and provides an inflationary update in any end of year legislative package.

Background

The 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) includes an across-the-board 2.8 percent cut to all payment rates for physicians and other clinicians treating Medicare patients, effective January 1, 2025, to comply with budget neutrality requirements. 

This is the fifth straight year that the Medicare PFS rule includes an across-the-board cut to payment rates for physicians and other clinicians. Congress has taken action over the past four years and passed legislation to mitigate most of these cuts. Your voice is critical to our efforts urging Congress to prevent the current 2.8 percent cut from going into effect on January 1. 

Recently, Reps. Greg Murphy, MD (R-NC) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) introduced bipartisan legislation, the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act (H.R. 10073), which would eliminate the looming 2.8% payment cut and provide a 1.8% payment update in 2025, an actual payment increase equal to one half the Medicare Economic Index (MEI), which would help to stabilize physician practices and protect patients' access to care. 

In addition, a bipartisan group of 233 Representatives and 41 Senators wrote to congressional leaders to urge them to expeditiously pass legislation that both stops another damaging round of cuts to Medicare payments and provides greater certainty and stability for clinicians serving Medicare beneficiaries – demonstrating the bipartisan support there is in Congress for addressing these cuts.

Action Requested: Please email your members of Congress and ask them to support a physician payment fix that eliminates the scheduled 2.8 percent cut and provides, at least, a 1.8 percent payment update in 2025 in any end of year legislative package. 

Please contact Shuan Tomlinson at stomlinson@acponline.org with any questions about this campaign. Thank you for your continued advocacy.