The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (MPFS) that includes yet another 2.8 percent cut to physician Medicare payments on January 1, 2025.

Enough is enough – contact your member of Congress and urge them to sign the Miller-Meeks/Panetta “Dear Colleague” letter today - deadline for cosigners is September 27!

If Congress refuses to act before the end of the year, this planned cut will mark the fifth consecutive year that CMS included a cut to physician payments within the MPFS. Failure to stop these cuts threatens Medicare beneficiary access to urologists and urologic professionals treating patients in the out-patient setting.

Recently, Representatives Mariannette Miller-Meeks, MD (R-IA) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), along with a bipartisan group of physician members of Congress, circulated a "Dear Colleague" letter urging House leadership to take immediate action to not only stop the 2.8 percent cut, but also provide urologists with a much-needed payment update that reflects the inflationary pressure they're facing running a medical practice.

According to recent data, physician Medicare payment rates have fallen 29 percent over the last two decades when adjusted for inflation, all while the cost of running a practice continues to rise. In fact, the 2025 MPFS Proposed Rule highlights that the cost of running a practice, as measured by the Medicare Economic Index (i.e., expenses associated with paying rent, compensating clinical and administrative staff, and purchasing supplies and equipment) is estimated to increase by 3.6 percent.

Anyone can see this path is unsustainable - another round of cuts combined with ever rising inflationary costs and a long history of insufficient Medicare payments will endanger both urological practices and the patients they serve.

Please contact your member of Congress and urge them to sign the Miller-Meeks/Panetta "Dear Colleague" today. The deadline for cosigners is September 27!

Urologists and urologic professionals stand ready to work with Congress to pass crucial bipartisan legislation to address these issues before the next round of cuts go into effect – it’s time to Fix Medicare Now!