Background

On January 1, 2025, a 2.83 cut to physician Medicare payment went into effect due to complex budgetary rules and systemic flaws within the physician fee schedule and Congress failure to pass legislation that would address this issue. This is the fifth straight year that the final PFS rule includes an across-the-board cut to payment rates for physicians and other clinicians. Congress has passed legislation over the past four years to mitigate portions of these cuts and needs to act again to stop the current cut. 

Reps. Greg Murphy, MD (R-NC) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), along with a bipartisan group of legislators have introduced an updated version of the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025 (H.R. 879). This bipartisan legislation would reverse and stop the 2.83% payment cut and provide a 2% 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. 

We need your help to get this legislation passed. 

Action Requested: Please email your members of Congress and ask them to cosponsor the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025 (H.R. 879) as part of the forthcoming legislation to fund the government beyond mid-March. 

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